by Andrew Maynard | Apr 18, 2008 | Nanotechnology, Oversight, Policy
The most recent estimate from the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) puts nanotechnology risk research investment at $68 million for 2006 (the only year complete figures are currently available for—apparently). Yet theProject on Emerging...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 8, 2007 | Civic Science, Nanotechnology, Policy
A trip through the newly refurbished St. Pancras station in London this week, and home to the widely-proclaimed “longest champagne bar in Europe”, prompted the following thought: At the champagne bar of modern science, are risk researchers the cappuccino drinkers...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 4, 2007 | Nanotechnology
I have on my desk a plastic bag of carbon nanotubes—2 grams of dry, 60% purity single walled carbon nanotubes to be precise—bought from Cheap Tubes Inc. for the princely sum of $80. And I am wondering what to do with them. Despite the cosy assurances of the...
