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We graciously thank The Brinson Foundation for their generous sponsorship of the C2ST Science Communication Internship in 2021-2024. As a result, an incredibly talented group of diverse STEM undergraduate and graduate scholars at area colleges and universities researched and developed over 125 blogs.* Enjoy-If you like, please share!
*As of 7.1.25
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Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Argonne National Laboratory present “The Nature of Nano 2”
CHICAGO, Illinois (January 11, 2014) –From tennis rackets to sunscreen, from stained glass windows to computer memory, the applications of nanoscale materials research are all around us. New television displays, cell phones and other digital devices incorporate nanostructured polymer films known as light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs.
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Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents “The Order of Crystallography”
CHICAGO, Illinois (January 13, 2014) Crystallography, or the science of how matter is arranged, has been around for a long time—the birth of X-ray crystallography was 100 years ago. Using the science of visualizing molecules in 3D has helped society build everything from better medicines to stronger materials. Despite huge advances in the field, and advantages to society, most folks remain unaware of the implications to materials engineering and on research methods today. UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has named 2014 the International Year of Crystallography. Help Chicago Council on Science and Technology celebrate crystallography’s place in our lives—and in Chicago.
The impact of 3D printing is expected to affect all of our lives at some point in the near future—whether it will be the products we buy, the educational tools we use or the medical care we seek.
Continue reading “Matter Into Medicine: The Biomedical Applications of 3D Printing”
By Scott Michael Slone
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high…
Many of our readers might be familiar with Reading Rainbow, an educational children’s show that aired on PBS during the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. It was a show dedicated to promoting reading in a child’s life and promoting critical thinking about what they were reading, much like the show Bill Nye The Science Guy promoted scientific thought and analysis. Continue reading “Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow”
