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Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Carlo Rovelli reflects on why time is fundamentally human, and how physics is like music – you don't have to be able to create it to appreciate it

Features

Click festival

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

Culture

A woman - the singer in the band - lying on her front in a water tank, in a red dress, with her mouth open - presumably

Humans

Making a splash: Let's hear it for the first underwater band

Culture

The musician Prince

Health

Purple pain: Why grief runs so deep when a pop icon dies young

Comment

Coltrane

Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

CultureLab

Virtual instruments let you play music using only your eyes

Technology

Virtual instruments let you play music using only your eyes

News

Beyond the Fence musical

Technology

Beyond The Fence: how computers spawned a musical

CultureLab

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Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

Regulars

Famous pianist Glenn Gould looks at a piece of Bach's sheet music

Life

Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach

News

concert

Technology

Virtual auditoriums help nervous speakers boost their skills

Public performance can be nerve racking. But a simulated audience can help teachers, musicians and business students learn to stay calm in front of a crowd

News

Health

How trippy version of Mariah Carey Christmas hit fools the brain

News

Technology

Soviet-era bootleg music recorded on discarded X-ray plates

Regulars

Humans

Musical training may give your brain waves more rhythm

News

Humans

Musicians' brains fire symmetrically when they listen to music

News

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