Music evolution: Is this the end of the composer?Close You might think that creating the perfect piece of music - whether it's a classical great, jazz masterpiece or pop hit - is all down to the composer's talent, flair or even genius. Not so, according to Professor Armand Leroi from Imperial College London. Here, he explains how a Darwinian computer program that can evolve music from noise could
Do you earn more or less than the world's average wage? Type in your monthly salary and we'll give you the answer. The average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization, is published here for the first time. It's a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, omitting some of the world's poorest nations. All figures are adjusted to reflect variations in the cost of living from one
Engineers in the US say they have invented a hydrogen-powered robot that moves through water like a jellyfish. Development of the robot, nicknamed Robojelly, is in the early stages but researchers hope it could eventually be used in underwater rescue operations. Writing inSmart Materials and Structures, external, Yonas Tadesse said the jellyfish's simple swimming action made it an ideal model for
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student. The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian. Entrants in the competition run by the publishers Collins had to be aged between 16 and 22 and conversant in multiple language
Ayaka and her family were forced to flee when their home was destroyed in the earthquake and tsunami which devastated parts of Japan in early 2011, killing about 16,000 people. They live outside the 20km (12 mile) exclusion zone surrounding the failed nuclear plant at Fukushima Daiichi, but they still have to live with increased radiation levels which impact their lives. Ayaka is one of several se
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