14 Feb 2010

Watch NANO CLIPS, a Youtube channel where you can see how to handle objects of micrometric scale.  Something similar happens in the animation I’m working on [13]. Link to this article

14 Feb 2010

Zymachi antennas resonate with appropriate radio waves [32]. Watch a real resonating nanotube, fundamental component of a nano radio.

California researchers Peter Burke and Chris Rotherglen have made a carbon nanotube demodulator that translates AM radio waves into sound, and incorporated it into a complete radio system:

Watch video below for further explanation.
Link to this article

13 Feb 2010

Quantum computing is no more an academic speculation [12]. Link to this article

12 Feb 2010

42 variations on ZYMACHI logo. Link to this article

09 Feb 2010

Really amazing CGI animation that shows DNA coiling, replicating, transcripting and translating. It was created by Drew Berry of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. I love it because you hear the hum of molecular activity. Last part, on haemoglobine anaemia, is dramatic.

Next one is on HIV lifecycle, it isn’t as good, but it’s very educative.

In the meanwhile (2009) they discovered another way HIV spreads from cell to cell. Link to this article

08 Feb 2010

In 2006, after the discover of a “tenth planet”, the International Astronomical Union decided to rewiev the concept of planet. According to the resolution, Pluto has been downgraded to the rank of Dwarf Planet, along with Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. From 200 to 2000 dwarf planets are expected to be found outside Neptune’s orbit. In my story, a dwarf planet threatens Earth [3]. In search for a name, I found “Nestis” (from a fragment of Empedocles), alleged nickname of Persephone, Queen of the Dead, or Iron Queen, according to Odysseus. Link to this article