Streak · 7 days+185 XP
7-Day Tiny Things Streak
Each day, look closely at something small with a magnifying glass or your phone's zoom and note one detail. Check in daily.
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The Nano Challenge
Daily facts and stats about nanoscience, plus real challenges to put them to work.
Warm-up questionNot ranked · tap an answer
Which physicist's 1959 talk 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' helped inspire nanotechnology?
Feynman imagined manipulating individual atoms decades before the tools to do it existed.
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Challenges
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Leaf Water Bead Test
Drip water onto leaves from several plants, note which ones bead water up the most and post a short write-up.
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Build a Scale Ladder
List ten real things from about a metre down to a nanometre in size, such as a hand, a hair and DNA, and post your list.
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Everyone on this arena gets the same five questions each day, from easy to hard. You get one ranked attempt; practice rounds are unlimited.
How is my score calculated?
100 points per correct answer, up to 50 more for answering quickly, a combo multiplier for answers in a row, and 150 bonus points for a perfect round.
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