After over a year as founding author of nanotechbuzz I'm moving on to focus exclusively on my work as director of Green Technology Forum. Nanotechbuzz will live on, of course, in the very able...

Those of us hoping to hear the word nanotechnology in the president's 2007 state of the union address, as we did for the first time in 2006, were disappointed. Nanotech was not addressed as the...

Questions and comments raised by readers at a new blog, Microanalysis: I heard a rumor that by 2020, nanotechnology will have made such advances that armies of nanobots will perform all of our...

There's an interesting discussion going on between Nigel Cameron, Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society and President of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, and...

James Hughes at Cyborg Democracy speculates: Perhaps our descendents will use nanotechnology to turn whole planets into intelligent, living stuff, each atom a processor in a planet-sized mind,...

Nanotechnology development in Denmark - environmental opportunities and risk aims to identify the eco-opportunities and eco-risks related to nanotechnology as perceived by Danish nano researchers....

Following up on my post about Brian Eno's talk, Before and After Darwin, I look at a work in progress where scientists looking at nature at the nanoscale have made some discoveries that could...

Cartoon by Ron Barrett for the New York Times article, Teeny-Weeny Rules for Itty-Bitty Atom Clusters.......

Reading the text of a recent talk by Brian Eno called Before and After Darwin, this caught my eye: In the past, you took things apart and studied them, but an even better way is to make them. When......

The Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) is a fairly new organization formed in 2005 by a group of UK companies from a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, chemicals, automotive,...

The Department of Defense has named Rice University the recipient of a $3 million award to develop miniaturized molecular imaging technologies for screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of breast...

The International Journal of Applied Philosophy this week offers a special issue on nanoethics. This is a well-respected scholarly journal, and the fact that it's devoting an entire issue to...

David Berube has put together a nice post entitled, Nano Research Needs Assessment - A Summary of Findings, at NanoHype. It includes links and summaries of 16 documents assessing various research...

As nanotech applications become more powerful and more abundant, so do the battles among industry leaders to stake their claims in the nano-game. Witness Cabot Microelectronics' recent decision...

Could a nano-enabled battery one day power a car at speeds of 100+ mph? Actually, that day is already here. Altair Nanotechnologies has delivered ten rapid charge, high power NanoSafe battery packs...

Governor Schwarzenegger is proposing nearly $95 million in the California state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative. This initiative provides funding for major...

UCLA chemistry professor and nanotech expert Fraser Stoddart has been awarded knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. Stoddart, a British subject, moved to UCLA in 1997 and is now the director...