This entry was posted in health and safety, nanotechnology, regulation, science communication and tagged EASAC, European Academies Science Advisory Council, Impact of engineered nanomaterials on ...

Here’s the information from Euractiv JobSite for the Policy Officer on Chemicals and Nanotechnology position at the EEB – European Environmental Bureau (note: I have edited this so you may want to ...

Before I get to the rap, I have some funding news. NISE Net has $3000 grants (one time only) available for projects that engage local audiences in nanoscale sciences, engineering, or technology topics ...

Thanks to the Nov. 7, 2011 posting on the Foresight Institute blog, I’ve found Petman, Last month we noted the impressive progress achieved by Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog project to develop a robot ...

NaNoWriMo is the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, a fact which amused me muchly given my Pavlovian response to seeing NaNo. Since this does relate to writing, one of my other passions, I’m ...

This entry was posted in electronics, energy, nanotechnology and tagged Cellulose Nanocrystal Aerogels as Universal 3D Lightweight Substrates for Supercapacitor Materials, cellulose nanocrystals, CNC, ...

The amount IBM is investing ($1.5B) is equal to the amount for nanotechnology in the US federal budget which was passed in June (I think, I’ll have to check it). IBM is investing the money in NY state ...

Apparently the US Federal Bureau of Prisons will be coating prison equipment with Nansulate. From the Nov.16, 2011 news item by Cameron Chai on Azonano, Francesca Crolley, Industrial Nanotech’s Vice ...

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Colin Meyers, Efficient Fabrication of Nanoporous Si and Si/Ge Enabled by a Heat Scavenger in Magnesiothermic Reactions, magnesiothermic reaction, ...

I’m finally getting around to posting about the British Election and its science aspect in a little more detail than I did in my April 23, 2010 posting now that’s it been held and a coalition is going ...

The timing for Deborah Rowe’s article in the Guardian newspaper is fascinating. Rowe is writing about nanoscale biosensors developed at the University of Edinburgh, research published in Dec. 2013, ...

Most people don’t think of algorithms as having biases and stereotypes but Michael Zou in his Sept. 26, 2016 essay for The Conversation (h/t phys.org Sept. 26, 2016 news item) says different, Note: ...