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Coming Soon: Artificial Gecko Feet, Microcellular Scaffolds, And Programmable Matter!
Are you ready for surfboard-shaped nanotech? How about solar panels that rely on light being a wave instead of a particle to set up a current? The American Vacuum Society (AVS)'s San José symposium unveiled dozens of material-science breakthroughs. More »Three New Medical Technologies That Could Save Your Life
Nanotech Could Make Nuclear Weapons Much, Much Tinier
Are you ready for nano-weapons of mass destruction? Nanotechnology could be used to create "miniaturized nuclear weapons" that would have virtually no fallout, and super-efficient bioterrorism, warns Jane's Defense Quarterly. And they could be triggered with a super-laser! More »Woody Allen's Dream Of Giant Vegetables Comes True — Thanks To Nanotech?
Fertilizer that includes carbon nanotubes makes plants grow faster and better, according to a new paper in the journal ACS Nano. So how long until we can have slapstick pratfalls with Buick-sized tomatoes? Let it be now! More »Nanotech And Lasers Team Up To Cure Cancer
When nanotech and lasers team up, is there anything they can't do? Apparently not. New research shows a combined nanotube/laser treatment zaps kidney tumors in 80 percent of mice. Nanotech is teaming up with viruses to kill ovarian tumors, too. More »Two Physics Breakthroughs That Will One Day Lead to Superarmor
The strange field of metamaterials offers some weird optical effects, like cloaking and superlenses. Recently, two breakthroughs in the field, involving programmable materials and gold nano-corkscrews, just made this exotic nano-stuff a little more practical, and maybe even stranger. More »"Camera Fabric" Cloth That Takes Color Pictures
The soldier of the future might be able to see in all directions at the same time. Researchers at MIT have developed a fabric made of fibers that can "take pictures" of its surroundings. More »Will G.I. Joe Be The Worst Movie Of The Year?
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.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 »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 »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 »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 »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.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 »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 »Titan 80-300 Cubed is the Most Badass of All Microscopes
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