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Joy Hakim is a former journalist and the author of The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New DimensionThe Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension. Einstein Adds a New Dimension is the recipient of the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award in the category of Education/Teaching/Academic. It has also received the 2008 National Science Teachers Association Selector’s Choice – Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12.

The Story of Science series also includes Aristotle Leads the Way and Newton at the Center, and has been praised widely from The New York Times to Timemagazine. Joy Hakim is also the author of A History of Us, a ten-volume history of America for young readers. The series won the first James Michener Prize in Writing.

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Renewable energy – primarily in the form of solar power – may be available on a mass-produced scale within ten years or so. Nanotechnology will have a great deal to do with this breakthrough.

Nanotechnology – building very small machines from even smaller parts – is leading-edge tech at the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science.

Dr. Eric D. Isaacs, Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory and Professor of Physics, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, talks about his research in our SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview. Dr. Isaacs discusses

• The energy crisis and the need for renewable energy sources such as solar energy
• Nanobiology – the interface between nature and technology
• Nanophotonics – nanoscale control of photons for use in information technology
• Nanoscale sensors and all-optical chips

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Dr. Lisa Randall is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Harvard University and author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimension (2005). Warped Passages was one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2005.

Professor Randall was recently named winner of the 2007 Julius Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society for her seminal work in particle physics and cosmology, and her “tireless efforts to engage both specialists and non-specialists” regarding advances in these fields.

In our terrific SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview on 4-5-06, Professor Randall discusses

• How is gravity connected to the geometry of space-time
• The overall concept of warped geometry
• Evaluation of the hierarchy problem – an unsolved element of the Standard Model
• Kaluza Klein particles
• The concept of “time evolution”
• The concept of locally localized gravity
• Why is it necessary, ultimately, to resolve quantum mechanics and general relativity at small distances

Technorati Tags: cosmology, large_hadron_collider, multiple_universes, physics