Sounds amazing: how protein structure can lead to music
In this month’s issue, Markus Buehler and Mario Milazzo explain how they developed a way to translate a protein’s sequence of amino acids into a musical sequence. Their system converts the 20 types of amino acids into a 20-tone scale, so that any protein string of amino acids becomes a sequence of audible notes. Elsewhere, explore the science potential of the James Webb Space Telescope, find out the environmental costs of “space tourism” and look back at how the Web expanded into North America 30 years ago..
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