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Making Music Out Of The Coronavirus

2020/5/12
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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.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)