Today the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations laid out the State of Food Insecurity in the World with a press conference in Rome, and the news wasn't good. "Far...

Nanoident, a leading nanotechnology company in the area of organic semiconductor based photonic sensors, has put together a nice video on printed semiconductors. The video includes animation of the...

As if in response to yesterday's post about Mihail Rocco's concerns over our limited ability to measure and manipulate matter at the nanoscale, the Farfield Group has introduced what it calls...

Dr. Mihail Roco is Chair of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology. He's also the individual most responsible for the...

What's 100,000 kilometers long, as thin as a piece of paper, and able to carry over twenty tons of cargo and passengers into space? The space elevator, of course. Nanotechnology breakthroughs...

Nature employs self-assembly to create beautiful structures like the patterns on butterfly wings, the super-adhesive feet of the gecko, and the water-shedding lotus leaf. Now, according to...

Well, at least the end of the term nanotechnology to distinguish novel materials. That's what Matthew Nordan, president of Lux Research sees coming, according to CNET News.com. "In 10 years,...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent letters to more than 500 organizations and individuals asking them to help design and develop a stewardship program that will help the agency better...

"We have now for the first time the ability to reprogram biology," Ray Kurzweil said in his talk last week on "The End of Biology" at Lousville, Kentucky's IdeaFestival....

Like to dabble in art? Concerned about nanotechnology-"the world's most powerful (and potentially dangerous) technology"? Why not combine both interests and enter the ETC Group's...

A remarkable new nanomaterial developed at MIT stops bleeding in seconds when applied to wounds. The discovery was made by accident when researchers experimenting with nerve cells in the brains of...

Would you give your kids nano-enhanced food or supplements? You can, with a wide range of products, including NANO B-12 Vitamin Spray, about which the manufacture says "your children will love...

Nanoshells, tiny metallic spheres with silica cores, can kill cancer cells with perfect efficiency, Dr. Naomi Halas told a packed house at the Illinois Institute of Technology on Friday. In her...

For a perspective on how intelligent folks new to nanotechnology perceive its potential risks, let me recommend Now is the Time to Learn about Nanotechnology at MindfulNews: "One problem with...

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...

From the biotech world comes news of some very unexpected consequences of Bt, the most popular microbe engineered into genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Bt, short for bacillus thuringiensis, is...