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Scientists report that pop music can improve the efficiency of solar cells and students tell tales of scaling huge rock faces in California.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of , with contributors from the Communications and Public Affairs Division.

 

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– Scientists in the prepare to test a possible HIV cure and the latest reports from the Curiosity rover suggest Mars once had lakes that could have sustained life.

– We speak to four students who took part in a climbing expedition in Yosemite National Park, California with support from the College Exploration Board.

–  on her recent finding that solar cells are more efficient when music is played, and prefer Adele to Beethoven.

– explains how astronomers monitor the sky for objects like the Chelyabinsk meteor that could collide with Earth.

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