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Music brightens the eyes: Pupil size is modulated by musical emotions

New research finds that emotional content of the music and listeners’ personal involvement with music influence pupil dilation during listening

Climate Change and Human Impact

Meteorologist Chris Brierley on the history of Earth and natural climate cycles

The Concept of Sovereignty

Historian Richard Bourke on political community, history of political philosophy, and the modern struggle over the location of sovereignty

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematician and Historian of Mathematics Jeremy Gray on the theory of quadratic forms, the rediscovery of Ceres, and non-Euclidian geometry

History of Laughter

Historian Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe

AI specialist Jürgen Schmidhuber on credit assignment, recurrent neural networks and how can you solve the parity problem with a network of only five connections

The Interstellar Medium

Astrophysicist Christopher McKee on giant molecular clouds, hot gas in the halo of the Galaxy, and dominant heating mechanism

Electron – Positron Annihilation

Physicist Frank Taylor on quarks, muons, and the Standard Model

Speaking multiple languages can improve stroke outcome

Patients who speak more than one language seem to be twice as likely to have a better outcome after stroke

Xingjie Ni: “We made a device that has total control over the amplitude and the phase of the light”

Electrical engineer Xingjie Ni on the 'invisibility cloak', metasurfaces, and nanoantennas that can control light

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