All That Matters

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They were pretty common with bands at least in the 1970s and 1980s, and probably still are – electronic synthesizers. Just check out video and sound of this Depeche Mode song ‘Just can’t get enough.’ Synthesizers generate artificial sounds by breaking these down into their individual frequency components and then generating these components artificially. In a paper published in Science this week, Andy Kung and colleagues from the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and other Taiwanese institutions have now demonstrated the equivalent of electronic synthesizers, but for light. […]