It’s SuperSaver time for anyone planning to attend the 17th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. (For anyone who wants to see the various tracks that undergird the overall theme [Toward a ...

Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from thecanadaproject appears online and in newspapers and literary journals. Poems from thecanadaproject will be the ...

I found this item in a newsletter/quoi de neuf that the Canadian Science and Technology museum sends out. From the April 30, 2011 newsletter, University of Ottawa uses Museum collection for Atomic ...

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has a couple of ‘oversight’ events coming up. The first is on Tuesday, April 28,2009 at 9 am PST and features discussion of a report ‘Oversight of Next ...

Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, just announced that the company will invest $6B to $8B for new and upgraded manufacturing facilities to produce 22 nanometre (nm) computer chips. From ...

Michael Berger at Nanowerk has written a Spotlight essay on the explosivity of nanoparticles. From the March 20, 2012 essay, Recent studies have found that nanomaterials – in this case dusts and ...

This UK funding competition for nanotechnology-enabled healthcare projects is the first time I’ve seen where they offer the academic and business funding together. From the Sept. 14, 2011 news item on ...

According to an August 4, 2020 news item on ScienceDaily the ‘Ice-phobic’ properties of moths’ eyes have inspired a new technology, Researchers have been working for decades on improving the ...

I have wondered what happens when titanium dioxide nanoparticles in sunscreens wash off. Apparently, I’m not alone. Two scientists in Connecticut are studying marine biofilm (the slimy green stuff) ...

Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...

One wonders if Morpho butterflies are going to decide that they need to protect their intellectual property. Yet another scientific group has found a way to exploit the nanostructures on the Morpho ...