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With a mobile phone you can manufacture calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, perhaps one day you’ll be able to grow your phone in a pot, whether the futuristic ideas of technology researchers come true.
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One of the state university system’s leading nanotechnology officials said Monday that Albany intends for the Mohawk Valley to benefit from plans for a 120,000-square-foot semiconductor packaging facility. 
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A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of emerging nanotechnologies.
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Researchers have developed a new nanomechanical sensor that can calculate the mass of a separate atom.
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In what sounds like the conclusion of the lamest Truth or Dare party ever, scientists have calculated how many nanotubes it would take to support the weight of one human. The discovery unto itself isn’t…
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Consumers accept nanotechnology in nutrition for packaging and, to a lesser extent, even the food itself. In recent years, nanotechnology has joined gene and data technology in becoming a pinnacle of hope for research and industry. The fields of materials science, electronics, environmental and medicine are all looking to particles, most of which are smaller [...]

Educating the public about nanotechnology and other complex but emerging technologies causes society to become more “worried and cautious” about the new technologies’ prospective benefits, according to a recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University.
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WASHINGTON and#8212; Working to stimulate innovation and private investment in nanotechnology, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, joined with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to introduced the Nanotechnology Innovation and Prize Competition Act. The bill would…
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IBM has announced plans to invest $1.5bn to promote nanotechnology research and boost its semiconductor manufacturing and research efforts in New York State.
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There’s big news expected today in the field of nanotechnology at UAlbany. Governor Paterson is scheduled to manufacture an announcement along those lines at the university’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering building.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.—-SurModics, Inc. , a leading provider of surface modification and drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry, announced today that its Brookwood Pharmaceuticals subsidiary has licensed lipid nanoparticle technology from PharmaSol GmbH of Berlin, Germany.
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DUBLIN, Ireland—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Bio Nanotechnology” report to their offering.
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Public Invited to Lunar Landing Anniversary Event on July 20th
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Learning from Past Emergency Response In a special session running all day Wednesday, July 16, 2008, presenters will share lessons learned during past incidents involving emergency evacuations, including some involving radiation releases, and the ensuing emergency response (some involving radiation). Presenters use these lessons to model future event responses.
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When a group of science fiction writers, teachers and critics gets together, there’s no telling what may be discussed. On Saturday at Kansas University, themes about the apocalypse, nanotechnology and war intertwined with literary features such as character development and plot twists, all creating endless story possibilities.
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arcticstoat writes in with word that scientists at the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory at MIT have found a new way of extending Moore’s law into the future — they have succeeded in etching a grid of 25nm lines into a silicon wafer. The scoop notes that that technique could be used for writing the grid on [...]

SOUTH BEND —- The future of nanotechnology is as immense as it is uncertain.
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A Federal Government reports warns a lack of scientific knowledge means Australian regulators could be unable to adequately protect humans and the environment from the possible risks of nanotechnology.
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Highlights of the Health Physics Society meeting in Pittsburgh, July 14-17 Scientists at a meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) in Pittsburgh next week will discuss some of the most fundamental questions about radiation safety including how best to assess radiation doses from CT scans and res
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Medical science would plus derive huge benefits from use of nanotechnology as detection and treatment of serious diseases like Aids and cancer would be easier. With increasing importance of capability generation through non-conventional energy sources, Nano technology would be of great help as it could considerably increase the capacity of photovoltaic cells — to generate [...]