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NanoBucky Clay Model It’s hard to grasp nanotechnology largely because we can’t directly see let alone touch what goes on at the nano scale. One scientist is taking this dark matter and lighting the...
View ArticlePositron Possibility
Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Scanning for cancer gets more sophisticated all the time. Positron Emissions Tomography is one of the best and most widely used methods to find tumors when they...
View ArticleNano Bucks
Dr. Robert Tanguay Zebrafish embryo Will particles smaller than a virus or many chemical compounds hurt people, animals or the environment? That is the unanswered question of nanotechnology and one of...
View ArticleQuantum Order
Dr. Collin Broholm It’s not a Harry Potter-esque secret society. But it is a bit mystical. Quantum order extends over many atoms and is not confined to an individual atom.
View ArticleYear 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...
View ArticleNano-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...
View ArticlePower 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...
View ArticleCouture 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...
View ArticleNano 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...
View ArticleYear 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...
View ArticleCars 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleNanobama
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...
View ArticleNano 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...
View ArticleScience 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....
View ArticleScience 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...
View ArticleNanotechnology 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...
View ArticleBedside 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...
View ArticleScience + 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....
View ArticleFerrofluid 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...
View ArticleQuantum 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...
View ArticleNanoArt 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...
View ArticleNickel 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleScience 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...
View ArticleIBM 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...
View ArticleWhite 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...
View ArticleElectricity from Viruses May Power Personal Devices
Not every virus has a pathological purpose. Sure they make us sick regularly and terrorize our computers. But researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Berkeley have found a good use for...
View ArticleMicrogravity Experiments in Space
The best place to study toothpaste dynamics is in space. That’s why personal product maker Proctor & Gamble is paying to send a science experiment to the International Space Station this week....
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