The Dean of Invention: Segway Mastermind Probes Sci-Tech’s Future [Video]

Ask a random person on the street to name his or her five favorite scientists, chances are you would hear a litany of familiar names–perhaps Marie Curie, Albert Einstein or Louis Pasteur–all of them instrumental in casting the world in which we live. Much less likely would be a recital of contemporary researchers hard at [...]

World Changing Ideas 2010 (preview)

Technology is all around us, expanding the limits of what is possible. but every once in a while, some invention or insight has an outsize effect; it creates a large dis­continuity, dividing history into “before” and “after.” The steam engine, the transistor, the World Wide Web–each of these ideas seemed to emerge from nowhere to [...]

Nanobiotechnology: Nanoparticle coronas take shape

Authors: Marco P. Monopoli, Francesca Baldelli Bombelli & Kenneth A. Dawson
Understanding the impact of nanomaterials on human health will require more detailed knowledge about the protein corona that surrounds nanoparticles in biological environments. (Source: Nature Nanotechnology)
Nature Nanotechnology via MedWorm.com

Research team exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia to battle cancer

Forget surgery. One team of Kansas State University researchers is exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia in the battle against cancer.
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News

Team’s Work Uses a Virus to Convert Methane to Ethylene

The nanoscience-based approach could herald the arrival of a set of new technologies representing a synthesis of molecular biology and industrial chemistry.
NYT > Nanotechnology

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