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Making Music Out Of The Coronavirus

Years ago, Markus Buehler developed a method to model proteins through music.

May 12, 2020
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The Spaces That Make Cities Fairer and More Resilient

Our shared economy depends most on what happens in between.

May 12, 2020
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PHOTOGRAPHER TO KNOW: HAROLD EDGERTON

Edgerton captured motion like no other, yet he considered himself a scientist — not an artist.

May 12, 2020
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WHAT HAPPENS TO A UNIVERSITY’S ART LENDING PROGRAM IN A PANDEMIC?

A Q & A with Lisa DeLong, registrar at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

May 11, 2020
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MIT junior Rona Wang lands six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster

As a high school student in Oregon, Rona Wang was invited to math competitions at MIT. She was so talented that after graduation, she ended up attending the renowned university to study math and computer science.

April 30, 2020
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Jonny Sun: You’re Not Alone In Feeling Lonely

For Jonny Sun, loneliness felt like being an alien on a distant planet, alone in the universe.

April 24, 2020
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Orbiting, la nuova installazione fluttuante sulla storia dell’umanità

Una sorta di carosello onirico sospeso nell’aria, con oggetti di ogni natura che girano in maniera circolare formando un’orbita immaginifica e surreale

April 23, 2020

Coronavirus the musical: U.S. scientists turn virus into melody to aid research

From tinkling harmonies as the virus disarms cells to clashing and stormy as it replicates, U.S. scientists have translated the novel coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to better understand the pathogen.

April 20, 2020
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The Opening Response: Jay Scheib

The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world.

April 17, 2020

Coronavirus’s complex spiked structure inspires translation into music

Coronaviruses get their name from the crown of spikelike proteins that surround them. Now, the protein spikes of the novel coronavirus have been turned into an intriguing musical composition — one researchers hope could inspire new ways to fight the … Continued

April 11, 2020
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Scientists have turned the structure of the coronavirus into music

You’ve probably seen dozens of images of the novel coronavirus—now responsible for 1 million infections and tens of thousands of deaths. Now, scientists have come up with a way for you to hear it: by translating the structure of its … Continued

April 3, 2020
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Making New Proteins From Music

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they were turning the biochemical properties of proteins into music. Now, they’ve used those musical compositions to create entirely new proteins.

March 28, 2020
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RAMI GEORGE’S VIDEOS SHOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO GROW UP IN A CULT

The drawings and video included in George’s first institutional solo exhibition, which was scheduled to open at the MIT List Visual Arts Center this month, stem from an effort to unpack these childhood experiences through art.

March 24, 2020
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Open Source Goes Mainstream – How Sharing Is Shaping The Future Of Music

Open source developments in music are leading the industry in a new direction.

March 19, 2020
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Amino Acid Rock Music Helps Build New Proteins

Some scientists teach computers to “see” proteins. Markus Buehler is teaching them to hear the compounds instead

March 18, 2020
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Meaningful museum interpretations using virtual reality

If the purpose of museums is to reflect on our reality, can virtual reality interpretation add a new and valuable dimension?

March 4, 2020
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Buildings With Skin and Wearable Digestive Systems: How Neri Oxman Is Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Biology and Design

The MIT professor’s new show “Material Ecology” is open now at the Museum of Modern Art.

February 27, 2020
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Six Must-See Spring Art Exhibitions in and Around Boston

Where to go and what to see for your spring design fix.

February, 20, 2020
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‘Colored People Time’ Confronts How Blacks Navigate Race Each Day

The show, called “Colored People Time,” dives into questions of race, colonization, and reparations.

February 17, 2020
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Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound

When artist Christine Sun Kim performed the national anthem in American Sign Language (ASL) at the Super Bowl on Feb. 2, she hoped it would give the Asian Deaf community some comfort to see someone like her on national TV.

February 13, 2020
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Time Is Still a Mystery to ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ Author

Why Alan Lightman, astrophysicist turned writer, traded black holes for black ink.

February 13, 2020
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This Artist and Super Bowl Performer Wants to Make Her Work—And Her Wardrobe—Accessible

If you didn’t catch California-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim’s work at the Whitney Biennial last year, and if you didn’t make it to the Museum of Modern Art’s first major exhibition of sound in 2013, then you likely first … Continued

February 10, 2020

Carlo Ratti and Daan Roosegaarde’s letter to David Chipperfield

You ask us what architects should do about the unmistakably impending environmental catastrophe.

February 11, 2020
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A Fiddling Twist to the Bach Cello Suites

No rule book prohibits someone from playing music on an instrument for which it wasn’t originally written.

February 10, 2020

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Because we are living in times of overwhelming, and daily, and sometimes unimaginable loss; because we are living in times when the extinction of species and the loss of certain ways of living are considered inevitable, and certain lives “ungrievable,” … Continued

February 10, 2020
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