The Nanoethics Group today announced that it has released a collection of important papers addressing a range of near-term issues related to nanotechnology's ethical and social implications.
Posted: Apr 28th, 2008
Read moreA joint conference on Iran-India nanotechnology began at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran on Sunday.
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008
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he Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences announces the initiation of Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21st century.
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008
Read moreDuring yesterday's General Assembly, the IMEC Board confirmed that 2007 was a successful year with excellent achievements, during which IMEC maintained its position as a world-leading nanoelectronics research institute.
Posted: Apr 26th, 2008
Read moreRussian scientists have created a battery for laptops for ten hours of continuous work. The block represents a fuel cell created using nanotechnologies.
Posted: Apr 26th, 2008
Read moreThe EthicSchool is open to researchers (PhD students, postdocs and others) from a wide variety of natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities backgrounds.
Posted: Apr 26th, 2008
Read moreOur Slow News Friday entry for the week...
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008
Read moreThe Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation, Boston University Photonics Center and the BU Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology hosted the prestigious Society of Manufacturing Engineers this week for a tour of their world class facilities located on the campus of Boston University.
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008
Read moreEmbedded digital control systems are powerful and ubiquitous in the technologies we use, but getting them to cooperate is difficult. That situation is changing.
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008
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Search for future hydrogen storage materials extends to investigation of hydrogen interactions with metal nanoparticles.
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008
Read moreSenator John Kerry presided over the Commerce Subcommittee hearing today, "National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization," urging that the Senate reauthorize funding for cutting-edge nanotechnology research, including increased funding for studies that research how nanotechnology affects human bodies and the environment over time.
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008
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Visualization shows metallic atoms rising from substrate like muffins in a muffin tin.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008
Read moreteam of nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with Brazilian collaborators, have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce bizarre mechanical properties when stretched or uniformly compressed.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008
Read moreAn investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency released today found that 889 of nearly 1,600 staff scientists reported that they experienced political interference in their work over the last five years.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008
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Simulation shows how defect-engineered zirconia repairs radiation-induced damage.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008
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How does trapping a nanoparticle in a microdevice affect its reactions? US scientists are answering this question thanks to a straightforward method using fluorescent tags.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2008
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