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Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds Collaboration: ‘Stare’

20/03/2012

'We're like the Biggest Happiest Family Ever. Just the other day when I was over in Berlin, Das Bobby Raths (Erased Tapes Uber Boss) called me up and was like "Yo, Justino! what are you...

Art Improves Quality of Life in Stroke Victims

19/03/2012

New research just published by the European Society of Cardiology sheds some pretty interesting light on what looks, on first glance, like more scientists taking chunks of time, brainpower and...

How messy are your globular clusters? Messier?

18/03/2012

A globular cluster, slightly bulging at the midriff. Named 'Messier 9' How quickly we become jaded to astronomical discovery. A globular cluster. Sounds a bit like something you find in your...

Eco Tourists Stress Wild Apes Out

17/03/2012

Sadly, eco tourism impacts too. And although the stressful effects of human contact with orangutan populations in Malaysia seem temporary, it's hard not to feel that no stress at all is a better...

Rejected in Love, Fruitflies Hit the Booze

16/03/2012

Knocked back in love, fruitflies start knocking back the shots. We've all done it. Researchers at University of California, San Fransisco studying the behaviour of drosophila fruit flies, have...

Elfin Saddle: Devastates

16/03/2012

I love it when music fascinates me. It's a rare, almost extinct occurrence nowadays, having had my ears sanded down and numbed by years of exposure to the ever-expanding, if not broadening,...

Last Chance to Save the NHS [Petition]

15/03/2012

From avaaz.org: Dear friends across Britain, We have just days to save the NHS. Opposition from doctors, nurses and patients has rocked the government. Our massive outcry now can persuade undecided...

Trans Fatty Acid Anger: TFAs linked to aggression

14/03/2012

And you thought the worst thing about a Twinky bar was the yucky goo in the middle. We found that greater trans fatty acids were significantly associated with greater aggression Trans fatty acids,...

Wave Them Around Like You Just Don’t Care: Gesture-based commands for iTunes/Spotify

13/03/2012

Flutter- Controlling your music through hand gestures. An intuitive leap from www.flutter.io, bringing the wireless functionality of the XBox Kinect to the home computer. In this case, using the...

Bloodstock Festival: Lineup Announcements

13/03/2012

Bloodstock 2012 Festival: Lineup Announcements ...

Missing Person: Owain Roberts (The Reasoning)

12/03/2012

A more serious Trebuchet News story than usual today. An appeal for help or information concerning the disappearance of Owain Roberts. A police description of Owain follows, but a critical piece of...

Alcohol Reduces Stroke Risk

11/03/2012

Hooray! Booze can lessen the risk of women getting strokes. Stop sniggering at the back. Not that kind of stroke. According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH),...

Can You Hear This?

10/03/2012

In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of...

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival

09/03/2012

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival 29/6 – 1/7 Gilberto Gil – everyone's favourite ex Minister for Culture comes to the UK for the London 2012 Festival. Exploring...

NinjaTune: Free Tracks for International Women’s Day

08/03/2012

NinjaTune – spotlighting some of the women on their label with a free tracks giveaway. Make what you will of International Women's Day – a timely, albeit paltry acknowledgement of the...

2:54 Announce Album and UK Tour

07/03/2012

Everyone's favourite punk, hard-rock, r 'n' b sister duo 2:54 announce the release of their eponymous debut album, 2:54. Maybe it's best not to mention that Collette and Hannah...

Share the Pain: What Women Want From Men

06/03/2012

An early contender for the 'Still No Cure For Cancer' award for scientific research into things we all knew already, the American Psychological Association today release the findings of a...

Swedish Band Lingua Call it Quits

05/03/2012

Trebuchet's interview with Lingua in November 2010 teased some lucid quotes from guitarist Misha Sedini, amongst them this psalm to the merits of self-motivation: On our first record, we leaned...

Earthshine Reflects on the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life

04/03/2012

Some ideas just have a clear beauty of their own that satisfy something primal in us. This one is far from being the most complicated concept, but it does have a symmetrical allure to it that is...

Attractive Robotic Fish Developed

03/03/2012

This one is just screaming out for the 'fish 'n' chips' headline. Robotic fish, developed by researchers at NYU-Poly, prove successful at inducing natural fish to follow them. In the...

Guns and Roses UK Tour

02/03/2012

'where the grass is green and the girls are pretty' You KNOW Axl Rose was singing about Nottingham. Well now he's finally made it. Gigs in Nottingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow,...

Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

29/02/2012

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

29/02/2012

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

Summer Camp: New Single, St. Etienne Remix [Stream]

28/02/2012

Summer Camp announce the release of their new single 'Losing My Mind' on March 19th. Nothing special about that, singles are annouced every day, glittery press photos and promo videos clog...

Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird to perform Maxinquaye

27/02/2012

An incendiary pairing, in life as well as on record. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, and cash-in tours are becoming tedious, but hearing Martina Topley-Bird performing Maxinquaye with Tricky...

Street drug ‘bath salts’ packs double punch

26/02/2012

Government reaction to unregulated drugs still tends towards Anslinger-style scaremongering. It seems to be the default setting. Which can be counter-productive too. When a new drug becomes a...

A rainbow in the palm of your hand

25/02/2012

The wonders of science. A polymer that can simultaneously reflect all the visible wavelengths of light. Described as having applications thatcould include: 'biomedical imaging, including...

WOMAD Announce Lineup

24/02/2012

Growing steadily since its first incarnation in 1982, WOMAD proves, year-in, year-out, that popular music is not simply a rundown of what happens to be shifting the most units on iTunes in any given...

Chess Players See Differently

22/02/2012

Just as expert chess players scrutinize a board to calculate their next moves, UT Dallas cognitive neuroscientists are studying the way these players' brains work to better understand how visual...