It may not win best picture at next year's Oscars, but a team of Ohio University physicists have captured the fascinating results of an experiment in molecular engineering in a movie. The video...

Whether we're talking about nanobots one day coursing through our bloodstreams or lab-on-a-chip implantable devices already in development, one of the biggest hurdles remains how to power these...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used a conventional desktop printer to print patterns of carbon nanotubes, according to a Rensselaer press release: Using an off-the-shelf inkjet...

Looking for the latest from the academic nanotech labs? The Center for Nano Science and Technology at notre dame University lists over 100 weblinks to university-based labs around the world. So dive...

Ever wonder who the world's leaders are when it comes to nanomedicine research? Well now you can find the answer at the new nanomedicine lab registry from Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Research....

Researchers at the University of Delaware have found a way to activate nanotubes using only light as a stimulus, "In our experiments, we discovered independently that if we shone light on...

That staple of science-fiction, the biological barcode labeling every person, plant and animal, may be one step closer thanks to a new optical tagging technique developed at Southampton University in...

Imagine changing the color of your walls and ceilings to fit your mood. That's what researchers at the University of Surrey hope to achieve with solid state lighting devices using nano-composite...

A major food research group has concluded that veggieburgers don't taste as good as hamburgers because-they lack nanotechnology! The group surveyed consumer evaluations of the taste of vegetarian...

US border security officials sponsored the development of a sensor at the University of Michigan that detects the gasses given off by the ink on paper bills, making it easier to catch currency...

One of the greatest advances in modern medicine has been our ability to probe inside the living body, diagnosing and treating organs from the inside. Now, nanotechnology is bringing the day closer...

Self-organizing networks of brain cells have been created by researchers at Tel Aviv University using clustered nanotube dots. The technique could allow the development of sophisticated biological...

Bombarding a carbon nanotube with electrons causes it to collapse with such incredible force that it can squeeze out even the hardest of materials, much like a tube of toothpaste. Now, research at...

For the first time, scientists have coupled living brain tissue to a chip like the ones that run computers. The technique, developed at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, involves culturing...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have presented a study of the effects of carbon nanoparticle buckyballs and concluded, "nanoparticles exhibit very little cytotoxicity over...

Richard Jones at Soft Machines has posted a nice list of nanotechnology books on his shelf, in the order in which they were published: Engines of Creation , by K. Eric Drexler (1986). Nanosystems:...

Students at the University of South Carolina NanoCenter have started News from the Bottom, the online student journal of nanotechnology. Editors Nidhi Kumar and Peter Coolidge have announced a Call...

Asked which technology they believe will have the greatest impact on their everyday life ten years from now, respondents to a recent poll ranked nanotechnology number two. No surprise that genetic...