Nanosciences and nanotechnologies represent a formidable challenge for the research community and industry. World-class infrastructure, new fundamental knowledge, novel equipment for characterisation and manufacturing, multi-disciplinary education and training for innovative and creative engineering, and a responsible attitude to societal demands are required. This documentary film, made available by the European Commission, provides a glimpse of some of the many activities that are being carried out in Europe in these fast-grozing fields of research and technological development.
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Nano, the next dimension
Butterfly - The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC
Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.
It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here?
Best Notebook of CES 2010: Lenovo Ideapad
They industry's first hybrid notebook - One PC, two devices. Detach the screen to switch between full-function notebook and 3G multitouch slate tablet for mobile Internet. Coming Summer 2010.
Wall Street Journal Top Ten Gadgets of CES for the U1 Laptop Magazine Best Netbook: U1
Laptop Magagine Best Smartbook: Skylight
Popular Science Best Products of the Future: U1
CNET Best Computer of CES 2010: U1
What We Still Don't Know - Sir Martin Rees
Sir Martin Rees explores the possibility that life exists on planets beyond our own. He unveils an unsettling scientific debate that has startling consequences for us Earthlings. Everything you thought you knew about the universe is wrong. It's made of atoms, right? Wrong. Atoms only account for a measly 15% of everything that exists. The mass of the universe consists of something so mysterious and elusive that it has been dubbed "dark matter."
NEXT WORLD - Claytronics (Programmable Matter)
"Claytronics" is an emerging field of engineering concerning reconfigurable nanoscale robots ('claytronic atoms', or catoms) designed to form much larger scale machines or mechanisms. Also known as "programmable matter", the catoms will be sub-millimeter computers that will eventually have the ability to move around, communicate with other computers, change color, and electrostatically connect to other catoms to form different shapes. The forms made up of catoms could morph into nearly any object, even replicas of human beings for virtual meetings.
Cascadian Megaquake
We need to remember and learn about our local regions. If you live in an earthquake zone, a tsunami region, a flood plain, etc. These are important lessons from nature that many of us have forgotten.
part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjDixpGsBf4&feature=related
QED and richard feynman part 1
A 10minute snippet from the awesome BBC4 documentary 'Atom'. It starts with some concluding words on Paul Dirac's famous equation giving rise to antimatter before delving into the strange world of Quantum electrodynamics
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8O_yQHxQos&feature=related
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlity—a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology. His theories have all sorts of supporters, detractors, and critics, but do you even remember what life was like before three-year-olds had cell phones and you actually had to remember facts instead of relying on the internet? That was only 10 years ago. If Kurzweil is right, we'll have supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades.
Stephen Hawking - Time Travel Part 2 of 5
Love this man and his theories!!
part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjMrnHHVxjQ&feature=related
part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrGkiPJn5s&feature=related
part V: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NuQCjIYjY&feature=related
























