Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Let's get small...really, really small...

From carbon nanotubes to artificial skin, our world is poised at the frontier of a revolution in materials science as far-reaching as the biotech breakthroughs of the last two decades. Here in the information age, smaller is better: transistors, microchips and the laptops and cell phone that they power are triumphs of tiny. Host David Pogue takes us to an even smaller world, as he profiles the latest in high-powered nano-circuits and micro-robots that may one day hold the key to saving lives and building materials from the ground up...NOVA...8pm

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