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How much is a kilogram?
When we buy a kg of flour how do we really know that we’re getting a kilogram? Scientists at CSIRO are working on developing the perfect kilogram from a sphere of pure silicon and are within 35nm from perfection. A piece of fine hair accidentally dropped into a kg of flour would not be registered [...]
Filed in Consumer Products, Learning, Nanomaterials, Social Impacts | 15 Jun 2007 | no comments -
Developments in Invisibility Cloaks
Invisibility cloaking has been embedded in sci-fi and literary fiction from Star Trek to James Bond and perhaps most memorably, the invisibility cloak of Harry Potter. In science the theoretical means of invisibility was proposed in the 1960’s by Russian physicist Victor Veselago who proposed materials coined metamaterials or left handed materials as they have [...]
Filed in Mol. Manufacturing, Nanomaterials | 06 Jun 2007 | no comments -
Animating the Cell
Remember those dead boring cell biology classes where cells where odd shaped circles with a couple of squiggles inside? XVIVO and Harvard University have changed this into a dramatic animation, showing processes inside the cell that look as bizarre and interesting as something out of Futurama. Animation gives an excitement about the constant rebuilding processes occurring [...]
Filed in Learning, Public Awareness, The Arts | 19 Dec 2006 | no comments