When I was a student at MIT, there was no undergraduate major called biological engineering. This year, the first class of undergraduate students are about to graduate with a degree in Course 20 (MIT...

Creative Weblogging needs a nanotech geek to work as blog editor for this blog. Applicants should have a min. of 30 days blogging experience, preferably related to the topic, and be ready to post 3...

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...

Several nano-cars competed in the Los Angeles Auto Show's 2006 Design Challenge on Environmental Sustainability, but in the end they were beat by . . . a Hummer? This year's challenge had...

The Inner Life of a Cell, a beautiful eight-minute animation created for Harvard biology students, gives a breathtaking glimpse of life at the molecular scale. The film shows the inner workings of a...

A team of scientists from BlueScope Steel and RMIT University has won the Nanotechnology Victoria 2005/06 prize for Outstanding Contribution to Industrial Nanotechnology. Using molecular simulation...

Have you noticed the trend in the nanotech debate lately to respond to the latest hot topic at the expense of more long-term concerns? The latest bandwagon seems to be risk, perhaps because the...

Nanowerk today launched nanoRISK, a bimonthly print newsletter and companion website. The first issue, available free, looks like a very sensible and informative venue for nanotech debate and...

An article entitled Science's Tiny, Big Unknown in yesterday's L.A. Times proves what many nanotech advocates have feared: the recall of Magic Nano bathroom cleanser, which caused respiratory...

Nanotechnologies have captured the top three spots in a new index of the top ten topics in physics. Michael Banks, a PhD student at the MPI-Stuttgart, developed the index based on the number of...

Ray Kurzweil has posted a commentary at Science & Theology entitled "Trends hint at a golden era of nanotechnology". I hope this level-headed and well-researched essay will get people...

The release of a report and database by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars listing 212 nanotech-based products available to consumers...

It's a good thing that, as Richard Feynman said, there's plenty of room at the bottom, because it's getting crowded down there. Scientists with something to say about nanotech don't...

Minnesota may be home to some of the world's biggest fish and game, but now, according to the Associated Press, it's also home to the world's biggest nanometers. The case of the giant...

Most of the press releases announcing laboratory-based breakthroughs in nanotechnology are peppered with " could haves " or " may one day lead tos " . That doesn' t undermine...