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    On the show this week, we take a musical mystery tour, find a new simpler recipe for making stem cells, reincarnate Schrödinger’s cat, and accompany Voyager 2 to the edge of the solar system.

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    Science and music - What can science tell us about the hows and whys of our musical minds? Find out in this extended interview with music psychologist John Sloboda and Nature’s Phil Ball..

  • Voyager 2 reporting

    Six linked papers of data streamed back from the Voyager 2 spacecraft are published in Nature this week - reporting recent observations from the outer limits of the Solar System and helping to build up a picture of how the Sun interacts with the rest of the Galaxy. The data suggest that the Solar System is not round - having instead an asymmetric, squashed shape.
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  • Music & Science

    This week's Nature features the last of nine expert opinion pieces exploring how developments in physics, psychology, materials science, information theory, neuroscience and anthropology illuminate what music is, why and how we make it, why we listen to it and how it is changing. Browse the full series and listen to the podcast here, or join in the discussion.

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