by Guest | Dec 15, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Nanotechnology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Georgia Miller, Friends of the Earth Australia A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series The promise that a given new technology will deliver environmentally benign electricity too cheap to meter, end hunger and poverty, or cure...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 30, 2009 | Nanotechnology
How do you describe nanotechnology in 24 seconds, or even in 7 words? Tough challenge, but Professor Wade Adams, Director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology at Rice University rose to it with aplomb at this year’s Ig...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 12, 2009 | Nanotechnology
Okay so it’s more of a list of nanotech-enabled products than a lifestyle tool, but at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, we’ve just released an iPhone version of our surprisingly successful web-based nanotech Consumer Products Inventory. With...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 5, 2009 | Nanotechnology
A new paper published on-line today in Nature Nanotechnology hints that some nanoparticles could cause damage to cells on the other side of normally tight barriers – such as the blood brain barrier or the placenta – without actually crossing the barriers. ...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 14, 2009 | Communication, Nanotechnology
Since when did peer review journals start to put press hits before published data? Scientific peer review journals are a cornerstone of modern science – providing an authoritative repository of scientific discovery that researchers and others can examine, test...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 1, 2009 | Nanotechnology
Twenty years ago, Don Eigler became the first person to manipulate and position individual atoms, making the breakthrough that many consider a pivotal moment in modern nanotechnology. Unknown to Don and the rest of IBM team though (I assume), they were pipped to the...
