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Making Music Out Of The Coronavirus
FromShort Wave
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When Markus Buehler heard about the coronavirus, he wanted to know what it sounded like. Today on the show, Maddie speaks with Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong about how Markus Buehler, a composer and engineering professor at MIT, developed a method for making music out of proteins, and how music can potentially help us hear what we have trouble seeing at the nanoscale level.
Released:
May 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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