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Battle of the elements final showdown, machine learning and musical amino acids
In this week’s Physics World Weekly, we reveal the element that will join carbon and silicon in the grand final of our Battle of the Elements. Over the past few weeks, Physics World editors have been stating the case for what they believe to be the greatest element of them all. Last week, iron did battle with nitrogen and lithium and we asked you to vote for your favourite via a Twitter poll. Listen to the podcast to see which of those elements make it through to the final then pop over to our Twitter page to vote for the overall winner.
Also in this week’s podcast, Physics World’s materials editor Anna Demming reports from the Japanese embassy in London where she discovered how machine learning is helping materials research. Then we’ve got a rather unusual story about how researchers at MIT are creating music from the properties of amino acids.
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