[Audio] Nano*High: Nanoscience for High School Students

Episodes

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   Nano*High: Nature's Nasty Nanomachines: How Viruses Work, and How We Can Stop Them

   The birth and growth of nanotechnology is only a few decades old, whereas Nature has been building nano-machines for millennia. Viruses are marvels of natural nano-engineering, but can pose a problem for human health. To combat these nano-machines, scientists are turning to recent developments...

   Sep 25, 2010
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   Nano*High: X-rays, Lasers, and Molecular Movies

   X-ray imaging is an excellent method to make visible what would normally be invisible - who hasn't had an X-ray at the doctor or dentist's office before? At the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the Advanced Light Source is a gigantic X-ray imaging machine. Dr. Roger Falcone discusses X-ray...

   Sep 25, 2010
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   Nano*High: From Atoms to Electricity: An Introduction to Nuclear Power, Its Promise and Challenge

   Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High. Professor Brian Wirth from the UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering presents the basics of nuclear science, and discusses the technological challenges involved in generating nuclear power and dealing safely with the by-products.

   Feb 2, 2010
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   Nano*High: Superconductivity, Trains and SQUIDs

   Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High. Superconductivity is a unique phenomenon where the electric resistance of a material drops to zero. Until only a few decades ago, superconductivity was only observed at extremely low temperatures. Today however, a new class of exotic...

   Feb 2, 2010