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Nano*High: From Atoms to Electricity: An Introduction to Nuclear Power, Its Promise and Challenge
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s): Brian D. Wirth
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.
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Nano*High: Superconductivity, Trains and SQUIDs
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s): John Clarke
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...
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Nano*High: Nature's Nasty Nanomachines: How Viruses Work, and How We Can Stop Them
Online Presentations | 25 Sep 2010 | Contributor(s): Carolyn R. Bertozzi
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...
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Nano*High: X-rays, Lasers, and Molecular Movies
Online Presentations | 25 Sep 2010 | Contributor(s): Roger W. Falcone
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...
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Nano*High: Looking for the Good News in Your Genome: Personalized Medicine--Science and Ethics
Online Presentations | 31 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s): Jasper Rine
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Nano*High: The Birth and Early Evolution of the Universe
Online Presentations | 31 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s): Alex Filippenko
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Nano*High: Got Plastic? What Saran Wrap & Renewable Energy Generation Have in Common
Online Presentations | 31 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s): Rachel Segalman, Eric Isaacs, Jeffrey B. Neaton
Rachel Segalman is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at LBNL. Nano*High The Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High gratefully acknowledges QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences for...