Sewage plant plays Mozart to stimulate microbes

Sewage operator believes chords and cadences of compositions speed up way the organisms break down biomassMozart has been credited with everything from increasing the intelligence of unborn babies to boosting the milk yield of cows. Now the head of a German sewage plant has introduced piped Mozartian music to stimulate the activity of microbes that break down waste.Anton Stucki, Swiss-born chief operator of the sewage centre in Treuenbrietzen, an hour south-west of Berlin, believes the chords an...

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