by Andrew Maynard | Oct 5, 2014 | Ebola, Health
On September 23, the Food and Drug Administration sent Rima Laibow and Ralph Fucetola at the Natural Solutions Foundation a warning letter claiming that their allegedly nano (colloidal) silver based “Dr. Rima Recommends™ The Silver Solution” product...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 9, 2014 | Ebola, Health
Update Oct 2: With concern over ebola in the US growing, I’m seeing a number of websites advocating the use of colloidal or nano silver as an effective preventative or cure. Just to be clear – there is no research that suggests ingesting colloidal silver...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 3, 2014 | Nanotechnology, Public Health, Risk
Pick up a jar of chili powder, and the chances are it will contain a small amount of fumed silica – an engineered nanomaterial that’s been around for over half a century. The material – which is formed from microscopically small particles of...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 20, 2014 | Nanotechnology
Why are materials important? How do they limit what we can achieve? And what can we do to change this? (Check out the videos below). Advanced Materials Materials and how we use them are inextricably linked to the development of human society. Yet amazing as historic...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 24, 2014 | Technology Innovation
I was going through the 2020 Science archives the other day looking for pieces on nanoparticles and sunscreens, and was rather shocked to see that the earliest article dates back to 2008! Here they are in chronological order – surprising how little things change...