What started as a creative idea for a video contest about nanotechnology is now growing into a full-fledged science music video production team. Composed of four University of California, Berkley, students and one alumnus, linkurl:The Sounds of Science;http://thesoundsofscience.com/index.html is making a quite a splash with its Broadway-style musical numbers, which enliven the realities of the laboratory through song, dance, and puppetry.
"I think that's a great idea," says David Kirby, a University of Manchester lecturer in science communication. "They [are] taking something that they love -- music -- and applying it to something else that they love -- science." The group created their first video, "Nano Nano," as an entry to the American Chemical Society's (ACS) NanoTube Contest, which called for video submissions to answer the question, "What is 'nano?'" The contest offered $500 cash prizes to winners of...
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