Neat Stuff – Nanotechnology for Kids, Images, Games, and more
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My Molecularium – Molecule Building Game
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The fast-paced, free game app challenges players to build a wide variety of fascinating molecules from water and vitamin C to caffeine and adrenaline. Kids, parents, teachers, gamers and science enthusiasts of all ages will have a blast launching atoms and learning about molecules!
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Exploring the nanoworld
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The objective of this website is to introduce you to the tools that let us "see" atoms, manipulate them, and create nano-architectural wonders.
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Test your nano-IQ
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20 questions – some serious, some not so serious – about all kinds of aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Answers and explanations are provided.
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KittyQ – A quantum adventure
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The game app revolves around more than 20 exciting brain-teasers based on scientific facts from quantum physics. Anyone who wants to find out what is behind the puzzles can access popularized background knowledge from "Kittypedia".
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Nanospace
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NanoSpace features free science-themed games, videos, and other activities for an audience of students in 4th through 8th grade, as well as their teachers and parents, in a fun-filled amusement park and learning environment. NanoSpace is a part of the Molecularium Project, the flagship outreach and education effort of the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center.
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Nanozone
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Nanotechnology for kids – from the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley with games, stories, videos and plenty of other stuff.
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When things get small
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This half-hour film addresses several important nanotechnology concepts with entertaining effects, humor and comic invention, and illustrates answers to such questions as: How small is nano? What happens when things get small? And, how do you make things small?
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Geckoman!
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Working on a science fair project with his lab partner Nikki, Harold Biggums finds himself transformed into a tiny superhero and flung into the midst of an alien plot to take over the world — a plot that he and Nikki can foil only by defying gravity, walking on water and charging across electric fields. This narrative dilemma is the basic storyline for Geckoman! - A video game about nanoscale forces, an online video game developed by Northeastern University researchers at the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), which seeks to educate middle-school students about nanoscience and technology.
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(also check out our primer
How does nanotechnology work)