The leading man plays a killer whale in Berlin’s underwater opera
What links a scientific research station in Antarctica with a unique opera performance in Germany’s capital? The answer, unlikely as it seems, is underwater sounds. Since 2005, a remote acoustic observatory has been recording the sounds of the deep sea using underwater microphones placed below the ice shelf. These otherworldly sounds provided the inspiration for…
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Natalie Holmes - New Scientist
Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain
Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have “too much brain”. So says Ryota Kanai and his colleagues at University College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose attention is readily diverted. To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of…
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Jessica Hamzelou - New Scientist
