Symphony of Corona
April 08, 2020

Scientists made music based on the structure of the coronavirus

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have translated the structure of famous spike protein of the notorious coronavirus into music, The Next Web reports. The sounds all represent different aspects of the spikelike protein, and like all proteins, the spikes are made of combinations of amino acids. Using a new technique called sonification, MIT's scientists assigned each amino acid a unique note in a musical scale, converting the entire protein into a music score. Sound quite classical, slightly disharmonic, and benign... Listen to the 2-hour long composition below.