a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
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 …
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In this episode, we interview the three high school student finalists from NSF's Generation Nano contest about their amazing nanotechnology-based superheroes.
This weekend, over 350,000 people are expected to attend the 4-day U.S. Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. The event is at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-4pm Sunday, and it's FREE! And what does this have to do with Sustainable Nano? Well, did you hear about the National Science Foundation's …
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It's Recommended Reading Day here at Sustainable Nano! There's so much great stuff out there on the internet that it's impossible to catch it all, so we thought we'd offer you a little sampling of 10 cool things we shared on Twitter and Facebook over the last couple weeks. Undark: Deborah Blum (director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT and most recently …
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