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Some famous musicians—from Mariah Carey to Jimi Hendrix—have a gift known as perfect pitch. What is it? Could you have it, too?

Bird’s-eye views of Earth, Civil War submarine mystery, and more

Originally published in July 1907

Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.

Emmy and Peabody Award–winning science writer, producer and director Ann Druyan talks about Cosmos: Possible Worlds, the next installment of the Cosmos series.

Originally published in April 1866

Originally published in April 1916

By breaking 900 classical piano compositions into musical chunks, researchers could track Ludwig van Beethoven’s influence on the composers who followed him. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from off the California coast about the first heart rate measurement done on a blue whale.

Science in meter and verse

Archaeologists have dated figurative rock art from Sulawesi to at least 43,900 years ago

Saving the Florida panther, cornfield espionage and racial profiling, and more