Spinning A Yarn With Carbon Nanotubes

BBC News: A method to continuously spin a wonder material, which is worth more per kg than gold, has been developed by Cambridge-MIT Institute scientists. Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes are just a few billionths of a metre across, but...

Study: Nanoparticles Toxic in Aquatic Habitat

Washington Post: The first study to look at the health effects of microscopic, manufactured "nanoparticles" on aquatic animals has found troubling evidence that the molecules -- which scientists are starting to make for research and industry -- can trigger organ...

Artificial Life: The New 'Creation'

Sun Sentinel (Florida): More than 3.5 billion years after nature transformed non-living matter into living things, populating Earth with a cornucopia of animals and plants, scientists say they are finally ready to try their hand at creating life. If they...

Nanotechnology Gets Big

Technology News: Near the end of six hours of interviews the other day in Houston, Smalley, a founder of Carbon Nanotechnologies and a professor at Rice University, stood before a display screen outlining potential uses of a branch of science...

"Smart Dust:" The Next Big Thing?

Mercury News: Imagine swarms of tiny sensors sitting in your office, seeing, listening and maybe even smelling everything that goes on around you. Such "smart dust'' sensors are under development by start-ups like Dust of Berkeley, to be used in...

IBM Claims Nanotech Breakthrough

Yahoo News: Researchers at IBM Corp. claim they have made an important breakthrough in the race to design circuitry at the molecular level: a system that works with existing methods of electronics manufacturing. In a paper being released Monday at...

DuPont's Nanotechnology Breaktrhough

Chemistry.org: A day after announcing a major shift in the way it plans to operate, DuPont Co. said its scientists had made a nanotechnology breakthrough in the electronics arena. DuPont said the finding might lead to the development of highly...

New NanoParticle fingerprint technology boosts fight against crime

Independent: Police forces are to introduce a revolutionary method of taking fingerprints, which makes it virtually impossible for offenders to erase incriminating evidence. This wipe-proof fingerprinting technique gives a much clearer image of the whorls and ridges of the finger...

Taiwanese achieve a breakthrough in nanotechnology

Taipei Times: Accidents resulting from carbon monoxide poisoning could be effectively prevented by a catalyst recently invented in Taiwan, scientists at National Taiwan University (NTU) said yesterday. Potential applications of the new catalyst include the production of masks used in...

Electronic nanotechnology will sustain Moore's Law

The Inquirer: A Carnegie Mellon professor said that field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices which use electronic nanotechnology and molecular electronics will keep Moore's Law alive and well in the future. Seth Goldstein, said the new class of electronics devices...

Paint changes colour in tiny world of molecular robot

The Herald (UK) Clothes that shrink to fit the wearer and paint that changes colour in the dark moved a step closer to reality yesterday as researchers unveiled the latest breakthrough in nanotechnology. Scientists at Edinburgh University, working with a...

US engineers harness palladium in nanotechnology breakthrough

Platinum Today: Engineers in the US say they have used palladium to develop a way to grow silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes directly on microstructures, thus paving the way for cheaper and faster commercialisation of a myriad of nanotechnology-based devices....

Nanotechnology: The Next Small Thing

Telegraph (UK): Investors are piling into a revolutionary new sector, but sceptics say it's just another bubble in the making. Richard Fletcher and Lauren Mills report. It's the stuff of science fiction: nanotechnology, a scientific breakthrough which its proponents claim...

Nanotech breakthrough jogs memory

ZDnet.com: The first 10GB nanotechnology memory (NRAM) device has been built in the laboratories of Nantero, the Boston, Massachussetts company has said. Using carbon nanotubes a billionth of a meter in diameter sprinkled onto a silicon wafer, the device has...