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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Genomics, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Robotics, Science Policy, Space, The Brain, Video on 02 8th, 2012 | No Comments

White House Stages Science Fair

President Obama fires a marshmallow gun and lets robots roam his White House at the White House Science Fair. Three-year-old Danielle Fairchild probably can’t grasp the magnitude of what she’s enabled. The little girl adopted by Fred and Dale Fairchild in Duluth, Georgia was born with half...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 01 17th, 2012 | No Comments

IBM Cracks Atomic Hard Drive Code

Right now there are about one million magnetized atoms involved in one bit of information. A bit is defined as a variable that can have only two possible values, 1 or 0. In computing those values are interpreted as binary digits. And IBM just lowered that minimum threshold from one million to 12. For...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Science & Religion, Video on 12 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Science Finds Shroud of Turin Wasn’t Faked

A new theory posits that an instantaneous light burst at the moment of Jesus’ resurrection left the imprint of his image in the cloth used to bury him. Just in time for what believers call a Christmas miracle, a team of Italian scientists has concluded that the cloth believed to hold the image...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Is Metal the New Building Block of Life?

The focus of Lee Cronin’s work is understanding and controlling self-assembly and self-organisation in chemistry to develop functional molecular and nano-molecular chemical systems; linking architectural design with function and recently engineering system-level functions.Lee Cronin's Lab Searches...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Greenovation, Inventions, Nanotechnology, Video on 11 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Nickel Lattices Form Lightest Material

Materials scientists have been inspired by human architectural feats like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower which demonstrate light-weight structures relative to their size. After applying similar architectural principles at the micro and nano scales, they have have created the lightest material...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 10th, 2011 | 4 Comments

NanoArt Shows Beauty at Smallest Level

Every artist must draw inspiration from someplace. For Christian Orfescu that inspiration is found at his day job, working as a materials scientist for Caleb Technology, a Califorina-based company where he uses nanotechnology to design better lithium batteries. Behold, the NanoArt. #gallery-1...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Quantum Circus Blurs Lines between Science and Art

An experiment itself, the Quantum Circus was born out of a collaboration between some Finnish quantum physicists and a group of circus performers. After three five-day workshops in 2009 and 2010, the idea grew into a performance, telling the story of quantum phsyics. Broken into two distinct parts,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 08 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Ferrofluid Sculpture

Ferrofluid Morpho Towers from Jason Peters on Vimeo. Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals is a 2007 installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two iron spiral towers stand on a large plate holding ferrofluid, also known as liquid magnets. When...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 07 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Science + Art: The World up Close

Common, everyday things, from construction material to household items or even insects, look remarkably different up close. And the up close that a new art exhibition has in mind is mind-boggling. Using a high-powered scanning electron microscope a scientist and a graphic designer combined forces...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Nanotechnology, Video on 02 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Bedside Cancer Scanner Speeds Diagnosis

A hand-held scanner that can detect cancer at a patient’s bedside using just a speck of tissue has been created by scientists from Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The device, about the size of a desk telephone, is the world’s smallest cancer diagnostic system, according...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Nanotechnology Builds on Past Hype

This video from Dutch TV shows nanotechnology in action as a surface coating to protect clothing and other materials from getting dirty. Dockers stain-resistant pants were among the first to use nanotechnology in clothing. A new collaboration between Swiss-based ETH Zurich and IBM signals a re-emergence...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biology, Climate Change, Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, RawAudio, SciClips, Space, The Brain on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Science For All

In a move to take science from the lab and place it in the public square, the World Science Festival is about to start its second year of inciting curiosity. REALscience talked with organizer and physicist Brian Greene to hear what we can expect at this year’s festival. Photo: Physicist and Co-Founder...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Climate Change, Discoveries, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Science Fair Season

Science is in the air across the nation as students showcase their discoveries, research projects and compete for scholarships. The biggest science and engineering fair is underway in Reno, Nevada. Visit the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to learn more. Students from all over the Pacific...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Nanotechnology, Video on 02 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Nano Origami

Know when to fold ‘em is the basic tenet of Dr. George Barbstathis’s principle of nano-origami. The MIT engineer is developing basic principles that allows engineers to fold nanomaterials into simple 3-D structures. Instead of paper cranes or frogs that most people associate with origami,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, Video on 02 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Nanobama

President Barack Obama’s image is shrunk to a size smaller than a grain of salt using nanotechnology. These 3D images of Obama measure less than half a millimeter across and are constructed with millions of carbon nanotubes. Each image, based on the iconic image by Shepard Fairey, measures only...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Climate Change, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

One Celled Solutions

Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Nanotechnology, Video on 11 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Cars and Planes of the Future try Buckypaper

Watch the video Future Planes, Cars May Be Made of ‘Buckypaper’. It’s called ‘buckypaper’ and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don’t be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from airplanes to TVs are made....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Astronomy, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate Change, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, SciClips, Science & Religion, The Brain on 10 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Year of Science on the Horizon

2009 has been declared the Year of Science. A group of scientific organizations has formed a network to promote science to the public. With many milestones being celebrated next year, Year of Science 2009 will celebrate the people, the process and procedures of science. To find out more visit: YearofScience2009.org UnderstandingScience.org ...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, SciClips on 05 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Nano Noodles

World’s Smallest Ramen Bowl, Courtesy of University of Tokyo Hungry engineering students in Japan decided to make a noodle bowl using microscopic pieces of carbon, called nanotubes. The bowl comes with noodles but they aren’t edible. They do make for a good picture. And, this one was entered...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 05 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Couture Physics

Dr. Brad Sherrill, courtesy of Michigan State University Nuclear physics could become quite fashionable if creating new radioactive isotopes starts helping doctors improve medicine, especially as more atom smashers are planned and built in the next decade. Couture Physics [ 2:39 ]

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Greenovation, Nanotechnology on 02 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Power Shirt Generates Energy from Physical Motion

Georgia Tech Professor Zhong Lin Wang shows a microfiber nanogenerator composed of a pair of entangled fibers. Photo by: Gary Meek Portable electricity just took a big step forward. The ability to power a cell phone or iPod is now within reach with a new breakthrough at Georgia Tech, where researchers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Engineering, Nanotechnology, Podcast, SciClips on 01 17th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Nano-enhanced Contact Lenses

Researcher holds completed lens, courtesy of University of Washington The Bionic Woman, the Terminator and other fictional superheroes all have extraordinary vision. Now average people may be well on the way to super enhanced vision thanks to a new nanotechnology discovery. Sometime in the not too...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Discoveries, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast on 12 31st, 2007 | No Comments

Year in Review

2007 was a big year for science—and REALscience. From weird weather events to extraordinary discoveries in space, the year was full of all kinds of science. It was the beginning of the International Polar Year. Global warming dominated the news. Science was under political attack. But the biggest...

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