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This video introduces the scientists, tools, and equipment found in clean rooms, a special kind of lab used to do nanoscale research.

What is a nanometer? What things are measured in nanometers? Is a red blood cell bigger or smaller than a bacteria? This video takes you on an adventure of scale from the macrosize to the microsize to the nanosize!

The Nanomedicine Explorer is an interactive, updateable multimedia kiosk and media package, that is also available as a component of the Nanomedicine Exhibition. Visitors can explore a variety of topics and specific research areas in cancer nanomedicine through vivid animations and video story-telling up close with a diverse group of researchers. Interactive features include games, polls, and options to dig deeper into the material. Fully bilingual English/Espanol. Visitors can text message or email themselves a link to the companion website. Produced with support from the NIH NCRR SEPA program. The multimedia package can also be loaded into any computer display or custom-built cabinet to augment existing health, medicine,and nanotechnology exhibits.

This poster aligns zooms into three familiar objects - a human heart, a butterfly's wing, and a laptop computer. Using the conventions of visual perspective the image travels in one continuous “landscape” from the human scale at the top to the atomic scale in the foreground. As the scale gets smaller and smaller, these disparate objects resolve to individual atoms, highlighting the concept that everything is made of atoms.

SmallTalk is a podcast series chatting about nanotechnology with leading scientists, thinkers, artists, writers, and visionaries, and look at quirky nanoscience stories in the news. Dr. Stephanie Chasteen, of the Exploratorium’s Teacher Institute, hosted this series in 2007. Podcase Episodes: • Nature’s Playing Field: Nanotechnology and Medicine Dr. Tejal Desai, UCSF and Dr. Thomas Murray, Hastings Center Running Time: 00:30:48 • Nanotechnology’s Role in Making Cheap Solar Power Dr. Jeff Grossman, UCB and Patrick Lin, Nanoethics Group Running Time: 00:26:04 • Consumer Products Using Nanotechnology Julia Moore and Evan Michelson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Running Time: 26:56 • Vroom! Nanocars and Nanofactories Dr. Jim Tour, Rice University and Diane Hickey, University of Florida Running Time: 00:28:20 • Nanograffiti: Building from the Atoms Up Dr. Don Eigler, IBM and Tom Rockwell, Exploratorium Running Time: 00:22:52

What is a robot, and how small can robots be? Are there robots the size of a hand? How about the size of a strand of hair? Can a robot be as tiny as a single molecule? Learn what makes a robot a robot, then step down in size and find out which robots are real and which are science fiction. This children's book may be downloaded for free from our site or purchased in hard copy at www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com Is That Robot Real? Hardcover: $26.80 http://www.lulu.com/content/hardcover-book/is-that-robot-real/2307668 OR http://www.amazon.com/That-Robot-Real-Sciencenter-Ithaca/dp/B002AD80D4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250275125&sr=1-4* Softcover: $17.20 http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/is-that-robot-real/4241194 OR http://www.amazon.com/That-Robot-Real-Sciencenter-Ithaca/dp/0578001969/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250275148&sr=1-3

What is a nanometer? What things are measured in nanometers? Is a red blood cell bigger or smaller than a bacteria? Step down in size to find out the answers and learn about different types of units that are used to measure very tiny things. This children's book may be downloaded for free from or purchased in hard copy at www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com How Small is Nano? Hardcover: $22.80 http://www.lulu.com/content/hardcover-book/how-small-is-nano/2275183 OR http://www.amazon.com/How-Small-Nano-Sciencenter-Ithaca/dp/B002AD0BM2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250275001&sr=1-2 Softcover: $11.20 http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/how-small-is-nano/5071352 OR http://www.amazon.com/How-Small-Nano-Sciencenter-Ithaca/dp/0578001977/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250889163&sr=8-14

In this interactive piece, visitors can zoom into the structures on the surface of a nasturtium leaf. Electron micrographs reveal the nanoscale structures that make water bead on the surface of the leaf. Zoom Into a Nasturtium Leaf can be used alone, or to accompany an exhibit or demonstration of the lotus effect, in which water beads and rolls off highly water-repellent leaves. Follow the instructions included with the file to install the free Adobe Air application.

This interactive zoom, inspired by Eames "Powers of Ten," allows visitors to travel from the familiar scale of their hand down to DNA deep within a cell. This zoom is designed as a stand-alone visitor experience, or to be used as part of a presentation to orient visitors to the size of the nanoscale. Follow the instructions included with the file to install the free Adobe Air application.

This poster features an illustration of a computer chip across ten orders of magnitude, from the computer chip to the atoms of which it is made. Using the conventions of visual perspective the image travels in one continuous “landscape” from the human scale at the top to the atomic scale in the foreground. The illustration is also available without annotation as an image, banner, or poster, and also appears on the "Everything is Made of Atoms" Poster with other parallel zooms into the human bloodstream and butterfly wing.