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Light a Fire

NISE Network

March 02, 2010 by Carol Lynn Alpert

Let’s join hands with our natural partners – active researchers – to open up spaces for sharing science and technology in our communities.

Here’s Don Eigler at the Museum of Science in Boston letting kids use his laptop “Atom-o-Scope” to direct an instrument – in his lab 3,000 miles away – to pick up and move a specific copper atom. Accompanied by his service dog Argon, he had just finished delighting a family audience with the story of how atoms were found and imaged at last. This event was part of NanoDays 2008.

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