Why music could solve the universe’s deepest secrets

‘Never the twain shall meet,’ wrote the famed English novelist Rudyard Kipling – words that might well describe the idea of pairing a symphony orchestra with a heavy metal band. Yet, towards the tail

It is mid-morning at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. The main adult ICU ward is a scene of calm, professional bustle as critical care nurses and doctors attend patients, discuss medication and hu

Sonic responses to human engagement

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

f you’ve ever read anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around us, everything we see and touch, every star and gas cloud and planet, makes up just