03-31-2008 - Uncategorized

sagar: Author=’EarthSky’ program=” video=’9′Vesicle membranes that collapse when cooled may someday deliver small amounts of medicine. (Credit: Sahraoui Chaieb, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)Michael Roukes of Caltech started as a physicist, but says he’s now dealing with less esoteric questions than before.

That’s because Roukes works in nanotechnology, whose future, he says, is in practical applications for biology and medicine.

Roukes is one of a panel of experts in a new Fred Friendly Seminars series about nanotechnology being broadcast on public television stations beginning in April, 2008. The series title is “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”:http://powerofsmall.org/.

_This special Clear Voices for Science podcast was produced in cooperation with ICAN Productions and the Fred Friendly Seminars, with funding from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Go to “powerofsmall.org”:http://powerofsmall.org/ to find out more._

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