Season 7, Episode 9 - Making music from beyond the grave

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We finish season 7 with a something out of left field. In short, a group of artists have used cells donated by a now-deceased experimental musician, to create new music using their electrical signals. This is a live exhibition viewable at the time of recording.

Take a moment.

How does that make you feel?

In this one piece of news, art, science, technology and ethics explicitly combine to shape one another. As always with this and all the other pieces of news we share, we hope that you consider the reality that we live in and ask: what is the future you would like to build?

Sean’s links:

• Power bars for honeybees

• Humanoid robots mostly failing to run marathons

• Clarify Clinics clearing microplastics from blood

• ‘Brain’ of late composer lives on in show

Ben’s links:

• We may have kinda sorta maybe, maybe not found life on another planet

• We may have kinda sorta maybe, maybe not seen a new colour for the first time

• We may not actually understand anything about insect behaviour

• Finding the key to curing cancer and growing hair in mitochondria

• This guy’s revolutionised the entire 3D-printing industry and its all freely available

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