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Welcome to the Science Podcast for July 28, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show, Ann Gibbons talks with us about the biology of ancient manuscripts. What can DNA and proteins from their pages reveal about their history?

Jen Goldbeck is back with the monthly book segment.

She discusses the book Smell Detectives with its author Melanie Kichel.

And David Grimm is here to give us this week's hits from our online news site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

First up, we have a story on the sonification of data.

Sounds very technical, but actually it's about turning giant sets of data into music. Here's an example. This is the sound of solar wind.

Dave, why would someone do this?

Well, Sarah, you're wrong.

Because actually we're not listening to solar wind as is. We're actually listening to data associated with solar wind.

Okay, so somehow the points are, whatever these data points are, they're ascribing music to it.

Exactly, right.

So for example, if you had a stock chart, you know, that's kind of boring to look at, right?

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