All things nano
EarthSky Clear Voices for Science podcasts (most are 8 minutes):
- John Hockenberry: nanotechnology, the power of small
- Kristen Kulinowski: clean, green, and unseen
- Mark Bunger: Clean, green and unseen
- Rosalyn Berne: forever young
- James Baker: forever young
- Michael Roukes: forever young
- Keith Schwab: watching me, watching you
- Paula Hammond: watching me, watching you
- George Whitesides: watching me, watching you
- Anita J. Allen: watching me, watching you
- Andrew Maynard on balancing nano’s benefits and risks
- Mark Ratner on nano’s behind-the-scene changes
- Christine Peterson on nano safety now
- George Whitesides on the state of nanotech in 2007
Earth & Sky 90-second radio podcasts:
- Hockenberry speaks on ‘power of small’
- Nanotechnology for ‘smart’ soldier uniforms
- Nano-vaccines could immunize developing world
- Will nanotech democratize medicine?
- Whose bodies benefit in a nano-enabled future?
- Scientists study concrete to make it ‘greener’
- Print your own organic solar cell, someday
- Are synthetic muscles in our future?
- Nano products could top $1 trillion by 2015
- Nanoscale fluids might help treat cancer
- Watching for problems, as nanotech changes the world
- Nanotechnology speeds, cools computer chips
- Nanotechnology improves solar cell efficiency
- How much nanotech is in your life already?
- Nanotechnology is ‘here and now,’ says expert
- Smart fabrics could repel bacteria, viruses
- Will nanowire technology change the world?
- In the 21st century, fabrics get ‘smart’
- Consumer products made with nanotech increasing
- Using nanotech to mark and starve tumors
- Nano bandage stops bleeding, aids surgeons
- New way to manufacture nano cubes and spheres
- Nano ‘knitting’ restores vision in test animals
- Nano molecules help find diseased cells
- New blood test leads to early disease diagnosis
- Nanoparticles aim drugs directly at brain tumors
- Scientist studies self-forming, spiral nano ice
- Study shows carbon nanotubes may pollute water
- Nano-magnets enhance MRI brain-imaging
- Nano separations for pollution, resources
- Scientist finds deep mystery, beauty in atoms
- Building computer circuits at the atomic scale
- Nanotechnology pluses and minuses
- Nanosensors to improve thermal imaging
- Nanotechnology surveillance and your privacy
- Treating toxins with nanoparticles
- Nano soldering iron repairs computer circuits
- Nanotech lets scientists create ‘lab-on-a-chip’
- Lab-on-a-chip for heart attack detection
- Nanotech sensors raise privacy issues
- Nanotech creates most precise point ever
- Can you tell which consumer products are nano?
- Nano skin products lack specific regulations
- Nanotech silk plus shell for bone repair
- Nanoshells could aid in cancer detection
- Nano-patterns use Silly Putty component
- Nanotechnology simplifies drug production
- Nanotech benefits developing world
- Magnetic fridge
- EPA funds nanotech safety studies
- Nano pen called a tool for discovery
- Nanotechnology’s myth of grey goo
- Mayonnaise: the original nanotechnology
- Experts seek public input on nanotechnology
- Living cell yields blueprint for nano engine
- Nanotech
- ‘Soft machines’ modeled from nature
- Nanotechnology fuels solar cell research
- Nano gold
- FDA approves first nanotech medical device
- Nano sensors to improve thermal imaging
- The mammoth potential of tiny nanotubes
- Nanotech advances could limit privacy
- Nano materials aid early cancer detection
- Scientists study health risks of nanotechnology
- Are nanoparticles safe?
- Carbon nanotube update, applications
- Nano imaging
- Atom assembler
- Nanowires
- Controlling machines with thoughts
- All the small things
- Nanotransistor
- Nanobes
- Why do Cheerios seem to attract each other?
- Expert discusses future of nanotechnology
- How small is a nanometer?
- Constructing ‘quantum dots’
- Recharge a cell phone with a shirt?
- Nanotech aids water purity
- Scientist concerned about nanobacteria
- Quantum dots aid cancer imaging
- Weak lungs might get boost with nanotech
- Solar energy technology improving
- Better ways to put hydrogen in ‘gas tank’
- Killing cancer cells with nanotechnology
- Award-winner studies nanomagnets
- New technologies create ‘hype and fear’
- Nanotech innovations in information technology
- Nanotechnology new tool for human world
- Flexible solar cells advance ‘mobile power’
- Off-the-grid living in 21st century
- Researchers improve fire resistant plastics
- Can nanotechnology make saltwater drinkable?
- Magnetic fields steer drugs to tumors
More EarthSky interviews on nanotech
- No secrets in a future with nano sensors? with Christine Peterson
- Falling dominos and future computers, with Don Eigler
- What does nano have to do with my life? with Carl Batt
- The ups and downs of building a space elevator, with Michael Laine
- Microbe muses, with Danielle France
- Fueling your car with sun and water, with Jin Zhang
- Will nano help solve 21st century challenges? with George Whitesides
- All organisms – humans included – engineered at nanoscale, with Viola Vogel
