Go Inside M.I.T.'s 50,000 Square Foot Clean Room

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The cutting edge of research is very small—and very clean. In this episode, host Rachel Feltman joins Vladimir Bulović, director of MIT.nano, on a tour of this facility’s nanoscale capabilities. Its tightly controlled clean room hosts research across several fields, from microelectronics to medical nanotechnology. You can see Bulović’s tour of the lab at: https://youtu.be/ucGFcLjX30Q E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Jeff DelViscio with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.3	Well, it's a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for coming.
0:40.8	The goal of this space is to enable anyone to build anything they wish.
0:44.8	Hey, it's still Rachel, but now I'm here at the Scientific American Recording Studio.
0:49.7	As you just heard, today's episode is a little different from our standard format.
0:54.0	We went all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts to explore MIT's cutting-edge nanotechnology
0:58.9	lab.
0:59.5	You'll notice that our sound quality is a little lower than our usual standards, but that's
1:03.7	just because we were surrounded by actual scientists doing actual science, along with all of
1:09.0	their exhaust fans and fume hoods, of course.
1:11.3	If you want to see all the cool stuff we're talking about during today's episode, including,
1:15.1	of course, me and a full bunny suit, you can check out a video version over on our YouTube
1:19.6	channel.
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