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Big data meets Beethoven’s metronome, astronomy gets a badass new acronym

18 Dec 2020 Margaret Harris
A photo of a metronome showing the weight and pendulum
Tick tock: Early metronomes used at the time of Ludwig van Beethoven incorporate a weighted mechanical pendulum with a scale written underneath. (Courtesy: iStock/Stefan-Rotter)
“Big data” has been a buzzword in scientific research for some time, but this week saw it applie

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Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
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