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Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.

People feeding dried hay to goats. Caption: How can we figure out how much energy is stored in this hay?

Three isotopes next to each other that are labeled, “Carbon-12, Carbon-13, Carbon-14.”

Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.

Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens

Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.

Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.

Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.

Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.

Person speaking and standing next to a poster board with "Control of matter at the nanoscale" surrounded by logos from different organizations. Caption: of matter at the atomic and molecular level.

Person speaking. Caption: used for both doing diagnostics as well as theranostics.

Illustration of a squid emitting a glowing cloud while a submarine passes closely. Vampire Squid. Caption: but some animals use it to warn or evade predators,

Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up

Computer graphic representation of clusters double helix DNA strands. Caption: We use synthetic DNA to reprogram living cells.

Complex robotic machinery behind a mesh grate with a person standing at a control panel outside of the grated area. Caption: We have electrical engineers that focus on computers.

A conveyor belt moves rows of light colored, flat, and round objects at a high speed. Caption: but a lot of support goes into making a good product,

Illustration of a smiling green Calcium nutrient with a charge of two. Text reads, “Divalent Cation.”

Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter

Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption: Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,

Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.

Under the label “Beta-Glucose,” we see a beta-glucose chemical formula with a face looking towards another beta-glucose formula as it tumbles.

Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.

Linked hexagonal structures drawn on graph paper. Caption: Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms

Illustration of interconnected objects coming apart where light hits. Caption: The light causes the short chains to disassemble

Gloved hands working with petri dishes covered in a variety of materials. Caption: (narrator) We always look for better ways to get energy we need.

Gauge in a vehicle with a range of 0 to 8. The indicator is at 1 and the gauge is labeled RPMx1000. Caption: How do electric vehicles compare with other cars?

Orange explosion throwing debris. Caption: And it contains a lot of energy.

Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons

Hillside covered in solar panels. Caption: collecting the sun's energy

Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.

Large spherical object surrounded by smaller multi-sphere objects. Nova Caption: Carbon is one of the most versatile elements.

Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.

A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.

Man lifts his sunglasses in shock and shows how red and sunburnt his face is. Next to him is an albino man under a glass dome. There are yellow squiggly rays behind them to represent sunrays.

An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.

Three glasses are filled with leaves. To the second glass, isopropyl alcohol is added. Caption: Next, cover the leaves in isopropyl alcohol.

A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.

The extent of the Large Hardon Collider is demarcated in a satellite view. Caption: C E R N.

Person looking at a slide in a microscope. Caption: And this is a biochemistry lab.

Person in a lab coat and gloves putting on protective glasses. Caption: For Rommie, being a chemist was just the beginning.

Two people walking next to rows of industrial tanks with piping and gauges. Caption: planning the scale-up of a new product.

Person in a lab coat and gloves pointing something out on a small white object. Caption: A lot of the science is a gradual progression,

Person holding a tool and working on something with wires. Caption: This is the first prototype of a project called BodyScape,

Illustration depicts glycerol in zig zag fatty acid chains.Caption: of three fatty acid chains stuck onto a glycerol molecule.

Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,

Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.

Person holding a tubular instrument to their eye. Caption: (narrator) You might say the chemiscope of an agent of change,

Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy

3D model of the connection of polymers. Caption: the molecules that gave rise to the first polymers of life,

Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.

Clear vial with a glowing pink liquid. Caption: may one day make treating cancer easier

Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,

Magnified view of intricate metal work. Caption: creating a protective barrier.

Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials

Digital Yellow balls with smaller orange circles around their perimeters float on a violet background. Two of the orange circles are labeled, "Potassium," and "Sodium."

Webs of black lines connect gray and red circles and form two columns at the left. A blue circle connects to a dashed fuchsia oval. Inside, a red circle with a plus side connects to three overlapping red and blue circles.

Two people in a lab. One is pouring liquid into a beaker. Caption: So let's see what happens here.

Alex Dainis holds a lighted match stick in the hand. Caption: So why does it happen.

Large blue machine rolling out 3 strips of metal into a long steel tube.

Angled side view of a man with dark hair in a gray hoodie jacket with white corded headphones plugged into a smartphone armband on his arm. He runs along a pier on a foggy day with a city skyline in the background.

Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.

Closeup of chunks of a white substance. Caption: So it's decomposing to ice plus gas.

Illustration of a whale swimming underwater. Music note.