• the nano song

    Awesome New Showtune Explains Nanotechnology... With Puppets

    If Sesame Street taught us to love nanotechnology, it might look a bit like "The Nano Song," from U.C. Berkeley and singer Glory Liu. It's easy to see why it won ACS-Nanonation's nano-video contest: you'll be singing it all weekend.
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    Comment by papercup mixmaster: I want to know more about this nano sand! Also, I died laughing at the unmentioned dripping grey goo next... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • robots

    New Tiny Robots Can Crawl Through Your Veins

    Imagine tiny robots crawling inside of you, diagnosing problems and imaging your body. Israel's Technion has developed just the tool: the ViRob, a robot with a diameter of 1mm. It's controlled by external magnetic fields, and it crawls through veins. More »
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    Comment by 92BuickLeSabre: Internet rhetoric question here. Is there an "LOL" or "Spit out my coffee" equivalent for when a headline makes you literally... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • nano-art

    There's A Hole In The Microverse!

    This awesome piece of nano-art shows dislocations in an arrangement of nano-crystals, each one 300 times smaller than a human hair. But it looks like the micro-universe is about to break into our own. More »
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    Comment by goldfarb: "Without the vivid colours generated by computer software, these transparent structures are instead defined by their topography, geometry and symmetry." I... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Hamsters And Teeny Factory Workers Show Us Our Nanotech Future

    Two new nano-bio breakthroughs give us hope that our shining nanotech future could be closer than we think. One researcher harnessed the power of crazed hamsters, while another one has perfected ambidextrous DNA-based nano-machines. More »
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    Comment by Roklimber: Creating electricity from animals by connecting nano-wires to their brains. That essentially amounts to building a battery out of a... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • science art

    The Haunting Beauty At The Heart Of A Cell's Wounded Monolayer

    Here's a microscopy image of a fibroblast, stained with a few different antibodies. The green is microtubuli, the red is cell-contacts and the blue is DNA. It's just one of Jan Schmoranzer's amazing nano-art images. More »
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    Comment by RenRen: Believe me, once you look through a microscope, you'll never see the (known) Universe the same way ever again. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Your Twitter Stream Could Soon Be Printed On Your Skin

    Check out that piece of cellophane-like material: it's actually filled with transparent circuits, using carbon nanotube transistors. Scientists have been fabricating transparent circuits for years, but now they're getting way closer to commercial viability.
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    Comment by Hotscot: I want none of it. This is the first steps to Borg-dom. I am not a number, I am a free... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • ask a biogeek

    Where Are My Medical Nanobots?

    Reader Wendy asks: When will nanobots clean out my arteries? While medical molecular machines are not likely to appear in the clinic soon, there's a decent amount of research going into the development of nanoscale robotics, and not only for therapeutic use. One could easily imagine these widgets appearing in diagnostic assays and nano-scale manufacturing. Before we can hope to command tiny robots to crawl or swim to a damaged or stenotic artery to effect repairs, we first need to build tiny robots capable of crawling or swimming. More »

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  • photography

    Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit

    If you've ever thought that selling your kidney, ova, or sperm sounded like a handy way to make some cash, it's time to consider body farming. Michael Burton's photographs show how advances in biotech will change the way humans treat and relate to their bodies. After all, if we can sell our organs, gametes, and hair, what's to stop us from growing extra ones all over our bodies? More »
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    Comment by Log1c: What. the. fuck. is on that foot? Actually, hell I don't want to know. And holy shit are those creepy. 4 Responses | Other threads

  • mega microscope

    Titan 80-300 Cubed is the Most Badass of All Microscopes

    You are looking at the most powerful electron microscope on Earth. Housed at MacMaster University in Ontario, Canada, the Titan 80-300 Cubed will allow researchers to peer into the workings of molecules and atoms on a scale never before possible. What they find with the ultra microscope could revolutionize material science, medicine and energy production. More »
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    Comment by Waterhouse: I think I speak for all decent, red-blooded Americans everywhere when I say that this aggression must not stand. We... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • dna sequencing

    Instant DNA Scan is SMRT, I Mean S-M-A-R-T

    Medcal treatments will take a quantum leap forward once we can develop drugs that are genetically tailored to a specific individual. But to do that, we need a way to sequence someone's DNA quickly and cheaply. Today, it takes months and costs six figures. Pacific Biosciences' Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) DNA sequencer is going to change that. More »
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    Comment by Gawd: I think that SMRT line is my most used Simpson quote ever... next to Maggie's purple dinosaur cartoon ("Barney") singing... 4 Responses | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nano-Iron Is Perfect for an Armored Battlesuit

    Sure, an armored suit made of iron is great, but what if you could make it out of nano-iron? Nano-iron is harder and stronger than plain old iron, with a sweet crystalline structure sure to impress supermodels. That's probably exactly what researchers at NC State were thinking when they developed this new form of super-iron. More »
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    Comment by thealchemist: @taxbaby: Nano Iron is in reference to its microstructure, which is entirely comprised of nano scaled features i.e. less than... more » | Other threads

  • mad science

    The Artificial Virus with Nanotech Tentacles

    The first artificial virus was created in 2003 — to cure people, not kill them. A virus can deliver cures to cells just as easily as it delivers death. The problem with artificial viruses is that no one has been able to make them the proper shape to serve as a therapeutic delivery system. But now, Korean scientists have created a virus that could deliver a remedy directly to a patient's cells with far greater efficiency than past attempts. The key lies in those Lovecraftian tentacles extending from the virus. More »
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    Comment by Klebert L. Hall: @russdanger: Sure, but Jeff Goldblum's rants in Jurassic Park were imbecilic Luddite garbage. -Kle. more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanotech Precisely Measures Spiciness So Your Tongue Doesn't Have To

    The Scoville Units you see on the side of chili sauce bottles are measured subjectively by taste testers, who determine how hot a given hot sauce really is. But now a new nanotechnology will allow food scientists to quickly and cheaply measure the exact amount of capsaicinoids — the active component in chili peppers — in each spicy sample. Science gives us many wondrous things, but you probably never thought it would help prevent you from making bland chili. More »
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    Comment by Balius: The OCD in me likes that peppers and hot-sauces can finally be put in order. One doesn't realize how... more » | Other threads

  • materials science art

    A Natural Landscape in Microns

    It looks like an alien city on the edge of a canal. But this is actually just a few microns across — it's a scanning electron microscope image by Fatih Buyukserin. What you're seeing are polymers stuck to a silicon mold full of beehive-like cells. This nano-city even has its own flowers made of wire. More »
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    Comment by Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: @Grey_Area: I thought so too. Forest and a river for sure, with a couple of rocks mid-stream big enough for... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanogauze Uses Ancient Tech to Staunch Blood

    One of the main reasons why people with deep wounds die is blood loss. But now a company is marketing an amazing new form of gauze, made with nanotech, that can induce fast blood-clotting in a wound to stop bleeding and save lives. The truly weird part? The nanotech involved is actually an ancient technology: kaolin clay, integrated into the gauze. Wired's Aaron Rowe explains that the clay is rich in aluminosilicate nanoparticles, which cause human blood to clot. This is one form of nano medicine that has gone through nature's own trial trials already. Humans have been working with this kind of clay for thousands of years. [Wired]
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    Comment by Castle1914: In addition this isn't even a new product, it's just re-purposed from testing to see if you clot to making... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    All the Nanotech You Can Eat

    Right now you can buy over 600 consumer products that contain some kind of nanomaterial or nanotechnology, and it turns out that a lot of them are edible. The Emerging Nanotechnology Project has compiled a comprehensive list of consumer items that companies are billing as "nanotech," grouping them into categories like "health" (which includes food) and "electronics." Here you can see their chart showing the breakdown of which products you can buy that contain something that can be called "nano." The E-Nano site also lets you search the products for all kinds of keywords. Needless to say, you can find some pretty bizarre shit if you search under "food." More »
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    Comment by denisegp: @Annalee Newitz: Done. "This Ain Supplio pencil lead from Pentel uses nanotechnology to release allegedly mind-expanding aromas, letting you... more » | Other threads

  • g.i. joe

    Power-Armor Vs. Nano-Tech Super Soldiers, In G.I. Joe

    Starship Troopers 3 may finally show us a glimpse of the powered armor Heinlein talks about in the novel — but we'll get our real power armor fix from the G.I. Joe movie, coming in 2009. I haven't been sure whether Joe really counted as science fiction, but a new script review gives plenty of reasons to accept it as belonging to the genre, including armor with invisibility powers, miraculous nano-technology, and super-soldiers created by a mad scientist. The costumes may look a bit Batman And Robin-esque (power-armor-breasts!) but the storyline sounds awesomely pulpy enough for ten sawmills. Spoilers, and a gallery, below. More »
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    Comment by glowfish: I hope Ray Park keeps his mask on, because he looks nothing like Snake-Eyes. Why didn't they cat the obvious... more » | Other threads

  • mad nano-engineering

    A Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine

    Gonorrhea, a bacteria that's transmitted via sexual intercourse and causes painful swelling, may turn out to be the perfect molecular machine. A group of researchers at Columbia University have announced findings proving that the bacteria can use its pili, long filaments that act like limbs, to pull with a force equivalent to 100,000 times its weight, and hold it for hours. Here you can see a video of a gonorrhea bacterium pulling on tiny, flexible columns around it (the pili, which you can't see, can stretch up to ten times the length of the bacterium, and you can see several columns moving rather far away from the bacteria). I've added some music by Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives that might express what the bacteria is secretly thinking. More »
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    Comment by Darth_Panda: The interesting thing about pili are the genes used to code them. The genes are composed of "microcassettes" that get... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanoparticles Causing Heart Attacks, Kidney Stones?

    And you thought the nanotoxic gym socks were bad. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine have found nanoparticles in kidney stones, gall stones, and in the hardened arteries which can lead to heart attacks. All of these conditions are caused by calcium build up, and researchers believe nanoparticles may be the seeds that set the calcium deposits growing. More »
    04/07/08
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    Comment by nygenxer: I've always wondered about the nano-sized particles, like titanium for example, used as drying agents in aerosol antiperspirants and antifungals. Breathing... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanoparticle Gym Socks Poison Wildlife

    Your socks are creating an insidious form of nanotech pollution. Sure, nanotechnology holds great promise for everything from treating cancer to making cloaking devices a reality. But critics have argued for a while it poses huge risks to the environment, and now engineers from Arizona State University are reporting that silver nanoparticles are almost certainly finding their way into local waterways courtesy of our washing machines. The source? Socks impregnated with the silver bits, which are known for their anti-microbial and anti-odor properties. More »
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    Comment by zenpoet: Well, this makes me completely rethink my latest plan of becoming "Silvermember." Dammit, back to the drawing board. more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanopaper Can Identify Deadly Bacteria in the Water

    Worried about the bacteria in your water? Just dip a test-strip coated with a special mix of nanoparticles into your glass, and watch the result. If the strip changes color, don't drink. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts have devised a way to instantly identify several species of bacteria using a blend of charged polymers and gold dust. The implications are fairly staggering for medicine, but also for national security. More »
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    Comment by Tiwa: Yes! I don't have to do dishes anymore! Now I can just wait until my cups are deadly to wash... more » | Other threads

  • sci fashion

    Nanowire Power Shirt Generates Electricity While You Wear It

    Now you can power your cell phone just by wearing a special shirt made of two tiny layers of nanowires that rub against each other as you move. These super-conductive wires are "piezoelectric," generating energy through pressure and movement. The result is a shirt that generates more electricity the more you move around. A few weeks ago, a research team at Georgia Tech announced the first generation power shirt (you can see the two layers of nano wires above), speculating that it could someday power small electronic devices like iPods or mobiles. More »
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    Comment by Upsilon: I'm envisioning some static lightning bolt-related lawsuits... ~Y more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    A View Of Tumors, From The Inside Out

    This image looks like an explosion in space, but it's actually gold nanorods bonding with a cancer cell. This type of gold nanoparticle could help researchers to watch a tumor grow in real time, within a few years, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford implanted nanoparticles into living mice and were able to image their tumors in 1,000 times more detail than you could with current imaging techniques. And the technique, using Raman spectroscopy, will allow doctors to measure 10, 20 or even 30 molecular targets simultaneously, instead of just one or two. Researchers say it'll revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment within a decade. Image from Cancer.gov. [Science Daily]
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    Comment by DocGratis: It is true or most high grade cancers.. they look interesting to the human eye. We are dawn towards a certain... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    NASA Wants To Slice Your Brain With Nanoknife

    Carbon nano-tubes aren't just gorgeous, they might also save your brain one day. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is teaming up with a cancer center, City Of Hope, to develop a new minimally invasive type of brain surgery using carbon nanotubes. Researchers hope that these sharp-tipped tubes, 50,000 times narrower than a human hair, can deliver cancer-fighting agents directly to the brain. Tests in mice found the nanotubes were non-toxic and could deliver actual genetic information to the brain. Here's an image of the first "nanoknife," developed by NIST and University of Colorado in 2006. [ScienceDaily]
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    Comment by theespacepope: Love to see the case for these. "Hey I've got the nano kniv-oh shit I just inhaled them." more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Get Your Cheap Nanotubes Right Here!

    Want some of those cool carbon nanotubes we showed you earlier? Get some dirt cheap at Cheap Tubes Inc., a site that specializes in selling CNTs at bargain basement prices. They're practically giving them away! More »
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    Comment by deckard97: While bucky fluorine derivatives and composites is one of the more exciting and promising technologies out there, it is not... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    Nanotubes Make Synthetic Skin Feel Your Pain

    Carbon nanotubes can conduct sensations through artificial skin back to the brain, making prosthetic limbs feel like the real thing. A nanotube like this one, delicately balanced on top of gold filaments, is threaded through a rubbery polymer. This nanotube-infused polymer generates electricity in response to pressure or force, creating signals that can be routed to your brain. That's why this synthetic skin can "feel." Researchers want to build a prosthetic limb out of this stuff by 2010. Click through for more images of carbon nanotubes, the artificial nervous systems of tomorrow. More »
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    Comment by Freddie Freelance: @ LIZHENRY: Since nanotubes can be configured to work as P-N Diodes you could make clothing that collects light energy... more » | Other threads

  • science art

    When Nano-Wires Explode

    This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As Art" competition. Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal used an electron scanning micrograph to record the explosion that happened when a CoFeB magnetic array was overloaded. The chaotic blasts are a "reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level." Beron has also been a star soccer goalie. [NanoWerk]
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    Comment by flesticle: Caryatids? I fell forward, into the depths of the N-gate, eyelids swirling photochromically, cataclysmically catalyzing the clave/clavichord/clavicle imbued teratogenically. Eh,... more » | Other threads

  • invisibility

    One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

    Last year, a team at Duke announced a beta cloaking material whose special nano-properties make it "invisible" to microwaves. Today, however, researchers in Stuttgart have got something even better — a "metamaterial" that can cloak objects in the visible light spectrum. Made of gold nano-mesh, the material has a negative refraction index for visible light — that means it doesn't reflect light, and could give the illusion of blending into the background. I can't wait for my metamaterial full body suit for doing futuristic spy shit. Towards Cloaking Visible Light [Science Daily]
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    Comment by msarnone1: As it turns out, you don't have to wait too long for that suit -- apparently, it's already in use... more » | Other threads

  • nanotech

    March of the Spermbots

    Spunk-seeking nanotechnology experts at Cornell say that sperm would make the perfect nanobots of the future. Robot sperm (pictured here in an artist's rendering) would deliver new DNA or other molecules to your body by scooting through your bloodstream using a tail powered by its own energy source. Find out why sperm are self-contained power-houses after the jump. More »
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  • bionic woman

    The 50 Million Dollar Dame. Episode 3.

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