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Small Talk podcast
NISE Network product

SmallTalk Podcasts

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...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

Invisible Sunblock

"Invisible Sunblock" is a hands-on activity exploring how nano-scale particles are used in mineral sunblocks to increase their transparency. Visitors compare nano and non-nano sunblocks to a visual representation of the effect of particle size on visibility.
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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exhibit image
NISE Network product

Intro to Nanomedicine video

What is Nanomedicine? This is the introductory component for the Nanomedicine exhibit package; but the video on it's own is also an informative stand-alone media piece for other uses. The structure includes a text panel and a narrated-and-captioned 2.5 minute...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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exhibit image
NISE Network product

Nanomedicine Explorer Kiosk exhibit

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...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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nanotechnology whats the big deal exhibition logo
NISE Network product

Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition

The NISE Network created the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition which has toured the Arkansas Discovery Network beginning in 2010. Copies of many of these exhibits were also previously on display at the Museum of Science, Boston and the Oregon...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Net Brown-Bag
NISE Network product

Online Brown-Bag: The Science Behind NanoDays 2013 - Part 1 (Recorded)

This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in 2013 and focuses specifically on the applications and scientific background behind the NISE Net's NanoDays 2013 kit activities. Presented by: Rashmi Nanjundaswamy and Lizzie Hager-Barnard, Lawrence Hall...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

What’s Nano About Chocolate?

Nanoscale science and technology ("nano" for short) is all around us and growing rapidly. See how even chocolate has nano implications and how we are in fact nanosensors!
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

What’s Nano About Bubbles?

Nanoscale science and technology ("nano" for short) is all around us and growing rapidly. Explore how nanoscale science impacts even simple, childhood pleasures like blowing bubbles.
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

What’s Nano About Toilets?

Nanoscale science and technology ("nano" for short) is all around us and growing rapidly. Discovery how nanotechnology found in nature may eventually be applied to make even the most mundane tasks like scrubbing toilets a thing of the past!
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

Battling Cancer with Nanotechnology Video

"Battling Cancer with Nanotechnology" is a 6-minute video that shares the research of Mauro Ferrari, a leading pioneer in the field of cancer nanomedicine. A visionary optimist, Ferrari applied his mathematical physics and engineering skills to medicine and is determined...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

Stealth Imaging with Iron Nanoparticles Video

"Stealth Imaging with Iron Nanoparticles" is an 8-minute video that tells the research story of Ralph Weissleder and Mukesh Harisinghani, who collaborated on the design of a clinical trial to determine if an injection of specially-designed iron-oxide nanoparticles could enhance...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

Zapping Tumors with Gold Nanoshells Video

"Zapping Tumors with Gold Nanoshells" is a 9-minute video that tells the story of two Rice University researchers, physicist Naomi Halas and bioengineer Jennifer West, who came together and hatched an idea that could someday lead to relief for millions...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NISE Network product

Nanomedicine Explorer Website and DVD

The Nanomedicine Explorer is an interactive, bilingual, multimedia program and website. Visitors can explore a variety of research areas in cancer nanomedicine through vivid animations and video story-telling up close with a diverse group of researchers. Interactive features include games...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NanoDays kit
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Linked product

Project on Emerging Nanotechnology- Inventories

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnology is a partnership between the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Pew Charitable Trusts. These interactive inventories provide a range of resources including information on consumer products that contain nanotechnology and research into...
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Linked Products
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