1. To mark its 20th anniversary, the band Massive Attack is having its album Mezzanine stored in DNA.
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True
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False
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2. According to ETH Zurich professor Robert Grass, music can be archived for millions of years if stored in DNA.
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True
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False
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D.
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3. Grass and his colleague Heckel first translated Mezzanine's digital audios into the four building blocks of DNA, namely A, C, T, and G.
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True
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False
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D.
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4. To keep the data volume low, the scientists then used the compression software OPUS to reduce Massive Attack's music file to an MP3 of 15 MB.
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True
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False
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D.
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5. A US firm is now turning the compressed Mezzanine album into 920,000 short DNA strands and will then pour them into 5,000 tiny glass spheres.
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True
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False
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D.
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6. The DNA strand and glass sphere production is predicted to take one or two months.
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True
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False
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D.
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7. The glass spheres will be almost invisible to the human eye and be kept in tiny bottles of water.
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True
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False
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D.
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8. The glass spheres will have a practically eternal shelf-life, can be read via a DNA sequencer, and thus played on a computer.
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True
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False
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D.
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9. Grass and Heckel already stored other audio files in glass spheres, but the Massive Attack audios are the first to be stored in DNA spheres for commercial purpose.
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True
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False
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D.
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10. Storing information in DNA is expensive, but once it is stored in DNA, people can quickly make millions of copies at low cost.
