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Don鈥檛 Miss: Capitalism vs environmentalism at London鈥檚 Science Museum

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Humans

Listen to the oldest known conch shell horn from 18,000 years ago

Piano playing

Technology

AI can grade your skill at piano by watching you play

A young chimpanzee swinging from a tree

Environment

Origins of human music linked to our ancestors鈥� daredevil behaviour

Got To Keep On (2019), installation by The Chemical Brothers and Smith & Lyall 03

Electronic: a trip through the history of music

Robert Henke show, CBM 8032 AV

How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers

Humans

MIDI 2.0: The code that will define the future of sound has arrived

Man listening to music

Mind

We process a song’s lyric and melody on different sides of the brain

Humans

Don’t miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Rowan Hooper interviews super humans at 51动漫 Live

How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

Rowan Hooper asks special guests what it feels like to be exceptional. And what does it take to get there?

Technology

Listen to a bendy audio speaker made from liquid heavy metal

Humans

Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar

Technology

Drill music with positive lyrics is more popular than negative songs

Technology

A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital