Science Spotlights

A New Job For Telescopes - Making Solar Energy

Jan 4, 2011

J. Roger Angel is one of the three 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics who share the prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design -- allowing us to glimpse ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the Universe. In a video presentation, Angel discusses how this research relates to solar energy application.

Scaling Up: The Future of Nanoscience

Jan 3, 2011

In advance of the Kavli Futures Symposium, “Plenty of Room in the Middle: Nanoscience – The Next 50 Years,” four participants and extraordinary researchers -- David Awschalom, Angela Belcher, Don Eigler and Michael Roukes -- join in a roundtable discussion of the future of nanoscience fifty years after Richard Feynman conceived the field.

Feynman’s Vision

Jan 2, 2011

Co-chairs of the “Plenty of Room in the Middle” symposium reflect on the celebrated physicist’s role in the narrative of nanoscience. What really happened when Richard Feynman gave his now-famous talk “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which, with amazing clarity, he outlined future wonders of nanoscale science and technology?

Nano Meets Astro: A Dialogue with MacArthur Recipients Michal Lipson and Nergis Mavalvala

Jan 2, 2011

A conversation with Michal Lipson of Cornell University and Nergis Mavalvala of MIT, 2010 MacArthur Fellowship winners, on the intersections between nanoscience and astrophysics.