Why are so many scientists also musicians? These posts take a closer look at the overlap between music and science, and the people who are active in both fields. Sign up to the Musicians & Scientists Quarterly newsletter (tick the box at the bottom of the form)
Composer Edward Elgar had a chemistry lab in a shed in his yard. There’s an anecdote about this lab in Elgar’s biography by W.H. Reed, and it’s quoted verbatim in …
The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine. —Abraham Lincoln I’ve never actually written any original music myself, because I don’t think …
Michelle Oyen is a lecturer in bioengineering at Cambridge University. You may have come across her name earlier this year, when this video about her lab’s Lego robots was doing …
It’s a long weekend in the UK, so I’m working on my favourite side project – people who do both science and music. (It really needs a catchy title. Suggestions?) …
I met Boyan at a biology workshop in September. As part of the workshop, all thirty participants had to introduce themselves using two slides. The first slide had to be …
Google has a wonderful tradition of adapting its logo to current events. There is a pattern to the days that get Doodles: they are usually national holidays, human rights or …
