In November 2007, the American Physical Society (APS) launched the Nano Bowl video contest. You have to make a video that demonstrates some aspect of physics in [American] football and send them your movie. The winner will receive the smallest trophy ever made and $1,000 in cash. This ‘nanotrophy’ has been created at Cornell University in the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF). It has been built ‘around a silicon chip on which, like Russian nesting dolls, football fields nest inside one another, the largest about 12 millimeters long and the smallest only 2 microns long.’ In case you’re interested, you still can submit your video until February 3, 2008 (Super Bowl Sunday). But read more…

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Source: Roland Piquepaille