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The Music of Science: Oliver Morton reckons Alan Turing would love this: a gadget the size of a matchbox which can read a genome sequence...  read more »

It's been the most exciting English Premiership season for years, but the game has been marred by two racial incidents. Patrick Barclay shows how football can move on...  read more »

For years it was thought that life couldn’t exist below a certain depth or above a certain heat. Now those limits turn out not to be limits after all. Bryan Appleyard looks into extremophiles...  read more »

This Season: Samantha Weinberg's pick of the science events is "94 Elements", a series of short films which takes us out of the chemistry lab and into the real world...   read more »

The Big Question: Edward Carr on the one musical instrument we all share...  read more »

Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking...
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If you want to start a peaceful revolution, the person to call is a Serb with a passion for Tolkien. Srdja Popovic is advising rebels in 40 countries. Emma Williams watches him at work and at home...  read more »

The Big Question: one instrument takes us back to the beginning of music. Jasper Rees started learning it when he was ten...  read more »

The Big Question: Richard Williams argues for a single instrument that can reproduce the amplitude of a big band...  read more »

The Big Question: Laura Barton argues that the reach of its six strings makes the guitar more articulate than any other instrument...  read more »