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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Music Science: from Mozart to Marketing

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mozart or Motown, most of us love music. We're digging into the science behind this much-loved pass time, be it listening to your favourite tunes, or playing them for yourself. Plus in the news - the discovery of an orphan planet, succumbing to robo peer pressure and do lemmings really jump off cliffs? We'll be finding out. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.0

Hello.

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Hello.

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Welcome.

0:06.0

Science.

0:09.0

And that is the same physics medicine,

0:11.0

nature or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.

0:15.0

Hello, this week, whether it's Mozart or Motown, we all love music.

0:21.0

So we'll be digging into the science behind this much enjoyed pastime, be it listening

0:24.7

to your favorite tunes or playing them for yourself.

0:27.7

Plus in the news, the discovery of an orphaned planet and would you take advice from a robot? I'm Katie Hayler. I'm Georgia Mills and

0:35.9

this is the Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.

0:43.0

1.1.

0:49.0

First up, we've all been there.

0:51.0

You need your phone for an emergency call or to look at a map and

0:54.6

the battery has died. Getting better batteries could change not only our smartphone use, but

1:00.5

it's one of the biggest challenges for getting people to take up

1:03.2

electric vehicles and while batteries have improved in leaps and bounds since the

1:07.2

80s there's still a very long way to go and progress has stalled in recent

1:11.6

years. But the good news is that Glasgow chemist Lee Kron progress has

1:15.0

come up with a totally new battery concept,

1:18.0

a supercharged liquid that you pump like petrol.

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