Lead poisoning is a big deal. It's not just an old problem. It's still around today. And it can mess with your health in a serious way. Take Beethoven, for example. He was a musical genius. But his health problems might have been linked to lead poisoning. That's a big deal. It shows how lead can sneak into your life and cause trouble. Beethoven's health issues were ...

In 2011, a Brazilian team led by Dr. Márcia Alves Marques Capella experimented with music and breast cancer cells. They played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Ligeti's "Atmosphères" to some cells in petri dishes. Amazingly, these songs seemed to kill around a fifth of the malignant cells. Mozart's Sonata, on the other hand, didn't seem to make much difference. But ho...