A colleague and I were discussing some ideas for this nanotechnology blog when we jokingly commented that if we wrote it about the Super Bowl we would probably get a lot more people tuning in to read it.  Out of sheer curiousity I ran a quick Google check on football and nanotechnology and found this interesting article about a contest being run by the American Physical Society.  http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=807

One can win the smallest trophy ever made and a $1000 in cash by creating a video that demonstrates some aspect of physics in American football.  The winner will be announced on Super Bowl Sunday.  Sounds like fun!  Time to dig out your camcorder and go to work. 

The trophy will be built at the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) on a silicon wafer in the shape of a football field.  In case you win the world’s smallest trophy - Agilent would be very happy to sell you an atomic force microscope so you can see it!  (How’s that for a shameless plug!)

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