The National Science Foundation's Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS), housed at UC Santa Barbara, recently hosted a major conference on health and safety in laboratories and industrial workpla...

When David Carroll, director of Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials and the driving force behind the school's nanotech boom, was at a shareholder meeting for hi...

Carbon may be losing its monopoly over the nanoworld. According to the latest calculations, tubes built out of the element boron could have many of the same properties as carbon nanotubes, the ubiquit...

Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times. But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer. Presenting their findings at a...

Having completed their work in summer 2007, the former partners of the EU-funded URANUS (Ultra-fast technology for multicolour compact high-power fibre systems) project want to continue their research...

Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced today the execution of a sales representation agreem...

Two new scientific-educational centers were opened in the Institute of physics and informational technologies of FENU on Thursday. Memorial plates were set up in honor of famous Far Eastern scientists...

Taiwanese researchers have been able to make a reliable and inexpensive nonvolatile memory array, which is made out of a mix of plastic and gold nanoparticles. The array is a 16-byte device called an...

A breakthrough in understanding the way atoms move across cell membranes in the human body could pave the way for the development of new treatments for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthrit...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) reports that research conducted in conjunction with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri is promising a met...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her Libyan counterpart Abdelrahman Mohammed Shalgam here on Thursday, with the expectation of further improvement of bilateral relations. "My m...

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U.S. Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Sandy K. Baruah, a senior member of the Bush Administration's economic development...

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP will hold a forum called "Nanotechnology Law & Commerce: Business at One-Billionth of a Meter" on January 31 at Chadbourne's offices in New York.

Surrey NanoSystems, a joint venture between the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute and CEVP Ltd, has appointed Duncan Cooper as its Director of Sales and Marketing. With 25 years' ex...

TEKES, the Same Funding Agency That Backed Nokia, Invests in Optoelectronics Company for Materials That Can Be "Custom Tuned" for Application Needs

Golden Pine Ventures, founded in the summer of 2004, has not disclosed the size of its fund, but Meldrum says it has enough to do between six and eight investments in the early-stage biotechnology and...

Nanotechnology is showing promise in all kinds of areas, from tiny, light computer components to health to cosmetics. According to an article in the Daily Mail, some potential future uses of nanotechn...

Advance Nanotech, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: AVNA) , a leader in next generation chemical detection, announced today that it has sold its 8.8% share of Singapore-based Singular ID Pte Ltd., manufacturer...

Aiming at a global audience TRI-K has changed its name Kemira Specialty after the cosmetic ingredients provider was acquired by Kemira group in April last year. Kemira's specialty division is parti...