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Nanotech's Brave New World
Nanotechnology is an emerging range of technologies in which medicine and engineering meet physics and chemistry. Nanotechnology supporters claim that the machines and materials it may produce will mean faster computers, less pollution and cheaper energy, and longer and healthier lives. read more

Get Ready for New 'Nano' Products
Nanotech enthusiasts claim the technology will someday cure disease and eliminate pollution. But for now, consumers will have to settle for balls that keep their bounce longer and wrinkle-free khaki slacks that resist coffee stains. read more

World's Smallest Motor Using Nanotubes And Etched Silicon
A UC Berkeley physicist has created the first nano-scale motor - a gold rotor on a nanotube shaft that could ride on the back of a virus. read more

Feeling the Danger
Coatings made from a new class of nanomaterials can detect when their underlying structures are about to fail and cause an accident read more

Renaissance Potters were Nanotechnologists
Artisans throwing pots in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Umbria were practising an early form of nanotechnology, Italian researchers have found read more

Nanotech's Far-Reaching Promise
Care to head to space on the Starlight Express? Someday -- in the next 10 years -- a carbon-nanotube elevator stretching 62,000 miles straight up into the sky could be a viable means of transport. read more

Your Genetically Modified Future.
Vaccines and antibiotics, the major biomedical advances of the past century, hugely decreased infant mortality and helped accelerate the worldwide population boom. read more

Australian Overturns 15 Years Of Nano-Science Doctrine
An Australian mathematician has thrown 15 years of accepted scientific practice out the window by discovering a design flaw in a key component of the Atomic Force Microscope. read more

Nanotechnology May be Over-Hyped
Nanotechnology will require sustained investment over at least the next decade, as well as more commercial applications, if it is to deliver on its initial promise. read more

Mutant viruses order quantum dots
A three dimensional grid of quantum dots created and held together by genetically-engineered viruses could enable a new generation of computer displays, memories and even nanoscale computer chips. read more

From Molecular Movements To Nanoconstruction Tools
Molecular movements that could evolve into some of the first useful tools at future nanoconstruction sites, where proteins might be shuttled from place to place in tiny chemical wheelbarrows or built upon molecular scaffolding, were seen recently. read more

Legal Implications of Nanotechnology
"As nanotechnology moves from the realm of science fiction to the real world of commercial application, legislation and regulation are going to have to play catch-up. " read more

GM Cats to be Sneeze Free
A plan to create genetically modified cats that do not provoke allergies is revealed. read more

Scientists Take Step Toward Single Molecule Switches
Computers of the future may have components that function based on the action of single molecules. A step in that direction has been made by showing that single molecules can switch between "on" and "off" states, and then hold in a state for hours at a time. read more

Smallest Laser 1,000 Times Thinner Than A Human Hair
A University of California, Berkeley, chemist has grown the world's smallest laser -- a nanowire nanolaser one thousand times thinner than a human hair. read more

A 'Star Trek' Tractor Beam at Microscopic Level
It's the equivalent of the fictional tractor beam depicted in ``Star Trek'' moving things around in space without touching them -- only at the microscopic level. read more

Nano Assembly System
Using the sharp tip of a silicon cantilever, this nano-assembly machine can pick up a few thousand atoms at a time from a reservoir and discretely assemble them to fabricate structures the size of viruses and proteins. read more

Food Resets the Body Clock
Many of our behaviors, like sleeping or eating, follow a roughly daily routine or circadian rhythm. read more

Nano Lubrication
The sickening grinding noise that a car engine makes if it runs out of oil is unforgettable. Without suitable lubrication, the microscopic ‘nanoscale’ machines and gears of the future will fail in the same way read more

MEMS Technology
Small-but-not-nanotech devices known as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems). Using these machines in optical routing could really speed things up. read more

New nanofabrication technology
Imagine being able to store 25 full-length, DVD-quality movies on a disc the size of a quarter. That amounts to a data storage density of about 1.2 trillion bits per square inch. A recent development by University of Massachusetts researchers may someday enable consumers to do just that. read more

Precise Nanometer-scale 3D Production Technology Used to Make World's Smallest Wineglass
They have made the world's smallest wine glass. Using highly advanced manufacturing techniques that can produce three dimensional (3D) objects at the nanometer scale. Check the pictures out. read more

Nanocopters
The first microscopic "helicopters", which could one day carry out medical tasks inside the body, have been built and test-driven by scientists at Cornell University. The tiny machines self-assemble. The biological material converts the body's biochemical fuel, ATP, into energy. This is used to turn the propellers at a rate of eight rotations per second. cbc read more

Nanomedicine
Nanotechnologists have connected small metal propellers onto biomolecular motors. This is to power robotic devices small enough to be injected into the body, with the aim to make medical repairs. read more

Nano-Subs
Scientists are in a race to create the first microscopic "submarines" which can whizz through the bloodstream attacking disease. They could administer drugs to treat tumours or break down the material lining blocked arteries. read more

Carbon Nanotubes
"Carbon nanotubes, which measure just a few billionths of a metre across, have extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties - in particular, outstanding strength. They are likely to find applications in many hi-tech areas, from tiny electric devices to extra-resistant coatings." read more