After watching the sci-fi thriller, “Children of Men” I have realized that the tone of sci-fi movies, as well as our view of the future, has drastically changed from say fifty years ago. We have all geared our taste towards movies with a very cynical and mundane outlook of the future; there will be a […]
When I first arrived the ART / Sci NanoLab I was unaware of the heavy theme of Art in the program, and how, indeed, the joining of art and science was the main focus. I learned about art/sci through my highschool chemistry teacher and the way he had described the program had been in purely […]
Today’s lecture greatly changed my interpretation of the collaboration between science and art. Though art has always been in collaboration with various forms of technology, the lecture opened my eyes to the complementary relationship that science and art share. By completing projects such as stained glass, artists and scientists present their collaborations to the rest […]
Today, we were introduced to some of the similarities between art and science as we listened to our morning lecture on Visualization. It began with some ideas about how both art and science can serve to be useful tools for each other. The question “How do artists and scientists produce images?” was asked. Perspective was […]
07.08.09 UCLA-Until the mid 1980’s the Vault wouldn’t be truly noted until a study conducted by Professor Leonard Rome who, at the time, was studying the birth and death of proteins. Even today this protein made structure, comprised of three major proteins and a small strand of RNA, remains to hold no known function. Today […]
Today we talked about how nanotechnology can help with cancer. Right now we use chemotherapy, which is a form of radiation, to fight the cancer cells. The problem is that it kill ALL the cells. Doctors basically try to kill the cancer before they kill the whole patient. Obviously this is problematic so now they […]
In the morning we saw a video called “Imagining the 10 Dimensions” which I found interesting. It was not based fully on the accepted version of string theory but it was a cool way to think regardless. Here is Part 1 and Part 2 of the video. After the morning intro video we looked at […]
Its a cold foggy day, but my I continue to move forward on this journey. Topic of the Day: Cancer Cells Two different methods were described to us aspiring students. It seems that cancer cells have different properties from regular cells. Therefore by changing the genetics of our nanoparticles, we are able to target the […]
The atomic force microscopy deals with creating images of the molecules and atoms. Yet personally, I have trouble understanding the concept of forces. Why would forces that attract atoms to each other all of a sudden reject when they are too close? Actually, I guess that does make sense. Molecules need a sense of interaction […]
The field of nanotechnology is a new and exciting branch of study that has become the most prominent focus of science in our modern society. In today’s lectures, we were exposed to a new aspect of nanotechnology regarding quantum dots. These tiny dots are composed of gold and release fluorescent light as they jump from […]