"To Future Scientists" series is a science video published on the official YouTube channel of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Japanese public research organization. It is produced to promote NIMS and to widely share the fascination and appeal of materials research. The theme of #19 is the "Halbach array." By simply changing the arrangement of magnets, the magnetic force changes, revealing the profound nature of magnets—something familiar, yet not widely known.

Description: The “To Future Scientists” series is a science video series available on the official YouTube channel of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a public research institution in Japan. Along with promoting NIMS, it is created to broadly convey the fascination and appeal of materials science research. The theme of #18 is “The Shadow of Infrared Light.” Infrared light is an invisible form of light that truly exists all around us, yet we are usually unaware of it. Using a distinctive method, this work reveals the power of infrared light. Though it is a simple experiment, it also symbolizes how changing the way we see the world can lead to new discoveries and ideas.

Description: A new science video released on NIMS’s public relations website, “Materials Power,” and on the official NIMS YouTube channel, created to promote the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Japanese public research organization. Centered on one of the fundamental principles of science, “energy conversion,” it uses simple and clear visuals to depict how energy such as heat, electricity, and motion is transformed from one form to another.

Based on the science film series “To Future Scientists,” which has been produced in a total of 15 installments, we created a song that conveys the fascination and appeal of materials science. The lyrics were written around the theme that even scientific substances with mysterious properties were originally born from the curiosity of a single individual, and the song combines footage of the experiments conducted in “To Future Scientists.”