a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
Spring is here! We’re very excited for the weather to warm up and for our flowers to bloom (we’ve got several planters of tulips and hyacinths on their way!). We’ve also got a gardenia that we love and are trying to help survive in Wisconsin. Folly? Probably. What we’re not so excited for, however, are …
Continue reading "Nano in the Environment: Allergens"
With winter and our first snowfall right around the corner where I live in Wisconsin, I am really looking forward to playing in the snow! One of my favorite activities is to throw snowballs up in the air while on a walk with my dog, Ginny. She jumps to catch the snowball on its way …
Continue reading "Snowballs and… Nanoparticles?"
Have you ever had to read a paragraph or a sentence several times to understand it? I know I have. I often take 3-4 passes to understand particularly complex sentences, and it goes like this: the first pass, I just power through to see if I can get the overall gist of it. The second …
Continue reading "Entertaining and Informing: The Art of Fun Science Abbreviations"
Like many people, I fantasized about being a super hero when I was younger. How cool would it be to save the day from a criminal mastermind who’s out to steal the world’s supply of chocolate?? Now that I’ve grown up a bit (debatable), I find myself still thinking about super heroes, although with a …
Continue reading "Spider-Man or Suction Cup Man?"
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