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This week on the Nature Podcast, Kerri Smith and Adam Rutherford unzip nanotubes to make some graphene nanoribbons, challenge the idea that closely related species have similar cognitive abilities and hear about the world’s largest network of cosmic ray detectors in Argentina. All that, plus the weekly NewsChat, celebrating the life of John Maddox, former [...]

If you haven’t already seen it, here’s UC Berkeley’s viral-hit, The Nano Song. It went big about a month ago and is still brilliant. Explanation of how it came about, and a link to an Mp3 download here. Nanotechnology explained through song. With puppets.
More recently, this week New York Times Deputy Science Editor, Barbara Strauch, [...]