Ray-D-8!

So today we took  over (Ed, Katie and Andy) short science and broadcast our own 'take-over' show which focused on the end of the world via Nuclear Annihilation! (Merry Christmas)

We also produced and recorded a little sketch for the show which gave our own take on an emergency broadcast  (Orson Welles style), thanks also goes to 'Nathaniel Wren' who features as the food correspondent.

You can listen to this on it's own here (Right click 'save target as')

Or if you want to listen to the whole episode of Short Science (episode 80), you can check it out here

The Sounds of Science #02

SEEING WITH SOUND

In this episode I take a listen to the vOICe technology which has been developed to help the blind ‘see’ with sound.

I'm joined by Dr Michael Proulx of Queen Mary University London who is currently using the vOICe technology to understand how different sense modalities interact to give rise to perception.  Dr Proulx tells me how the vOICe technology can be used to induce a type of ‘synthetic vision’ and how this is achieved through the process of 'sensory substitution'.

To find out more about how the software creates sound from visual information we put it to the test with the use of several interesting images (below).

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So if you ever wanted to know what a banana or even a goat might ‘sound’ like you’ve come to the right place!

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You can download the episode here (right click ‘save target as’ to download)

Or listen to this feature within episode 078 of Short Science.

For further information on the vOICe technology, visit: www.seeingwithsound.com

The Sounds of Science #01

LHC Sound Project

In the first episode I explore the work scientists have been doing to turn the data from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern into sound.

Through a process known as 'sonification' - data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN can be transformed into sound, providing an insight into what the elusive Higgs Boson may sound like.

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You can download the episode here (right click 'save target as' to download)

Or listen to this feature within episode 074 of Short Science.

For more information on the LHC sound project check out http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/