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The Xinhua News Agency this week reported that South Korea aims to capture 15 percent of the global nanotech market within the next seven years, becoming …
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The National Research Council this week released a report that found "serious weaknesses" in the U.S. government's approach to handling the …
Today, Mike Honda (D-San Jose) introduced HR 3235, the Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities (NANO) Act, comprehensive legislation for nanotech development in the US. Mike Honda has been a …
In the UK, the primary agency responsible for doling out grant money to nanotechnologists is the EPSRC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Not wanting to fall behind in nanotechno…
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 pr…
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 proje…
If the bullet-proof t-shirt in our last post doesn't do it for you, how about the superhuman exoskeleton being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). They've hired…
Israel has reportedly become the first nation to publicly acknowledge plans to develop an arsenal of nanotechnology weapons.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, potential weapons include tiny se…
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 fro…
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 …