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Top Stories - Friday, March 5, 2010 11:14 - 2 Comments
Hey, sun, this is your song
The product, which composer Robert Alexander says is “in between art and science,” sounds appropriately primal and otherworldly. In one version, he used what he describes as a tribal drum beat to represent the rotation of the sun, and he layered the voice of a singer (his sister) to represent the charge state of carbon atoms, for example. “These sonifications present scientific data in a way that is immediately visceral.” (Credit: iStockphoto)
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Scientists know what solar winds look like. Now researchers have come up with a musical interpretation of what the winds might sound like, too. Continue…
- NASA launching tools to forecast solar activity
- Satellite images guide Haiti relief efforts
- Simulated galaxies resemble real ones
- California’s troubled waters
- Early galaxies as never seen before
- Putting a lander on Earth’s ‘evil twin’
- From space, daily snapshot of CO2 levels
- Saturn’s oblong orbit linked to Titan’s lakes
- Space Station to host hatching butterflies
- Race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins
- T-ray tool takes extreme measures
- Cosmic ‘weather’ at edge of solar system
- Cassini reshapes view of solar system
- Arctic sea ice’s downward trend continues
- Messenger makes final Mercury flyby
- Crystals to grow in low gravity on Space Station
- Human activity threatens world’s river deltas
- Sci-fi meets Wi-Fi: Internet in outer space
- What a view! Shorefront property found on Mars
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