Question: What is the 'Molecularium' move about?

Silvia Imberti answered on 4 Mar 2019:

The Molecularium is a really cool project, where a team of American scientists crossed path with a team of filmmakers/cartoon designers and they produced this great animated movies that explain atoms and molecules at primary school level. They are meant to be projected in a planetarium (one of those dome shaped places where you usually go to watch stars and planets) or in 3D cinemas.

“If only one idea had to be passed on the next generation, it is the concept of atoms and molecules, and that everything is made of them.”
– Richard Feynman, Physics Nobel Laureate

Trailer here: http://molecularium.com/projects/molecules-to-the-max/

What is really cool about it is that the way molecules are moving around is not fictional (well, not in the conventional sense of the word at least). 🙂
There are real “Molecular Dynamics” simulations underpinning the actual puppet molecules moving around (Molecular Dynamics or “MD” is the name of one of the most common simulations types in my field). Reproducing the positions and movements of molecules (and water molecules in particular) realistically is still one of the biggest challenges in my field (ask me about it!).

This is really a great example of how to get science out of the lab! 🙂