Before I get to the rap, I have some funding news. NISE Net has $3000 grants (one time only) available for projects that engage local audiences in nanoscale sciences, engineering, or technology topics ...

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The amount IBM is investing ($1.5B) is equal to the amount for nanotechnology in the US federal budget which was passed in June (I think, I’ll have to check it). IBM is investing the money in NY state ...

There’s a great article (Serious Science, Comic-Book Style) by Catherine Clabby in American Scientist about an exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History that combines graphic novel/comic ...

Apparently the US Federal Bureau of Prisons will be coating prison equipment with Nansulate. From the Nov.16, 2011 news item by Cameron Chai on Azonano, Francesca Crolley, Industrial Nanotech’s Vice ...

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 ...

Pandora’s Collective is presenting its Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival until August 24, 2010. I want to draw your attention to Saturday’s events which will take place at Lumberman’s Arch in ...

York University (Ontario, Canada) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation according to a Nov. 10, 2012 article in The Hindu Business ...

Whose Electric Brain? (Presentation) from Maryse de la Giroday on Vimeo. I’ve come across a few errors; at one point, I refer to Buckminster Fuller as Buckminster Fullerene and I state that the ...

The myth of Canada’s nanomaterials reporting plan/inventory lives on. A group (Program on Reproductive Health and Environment) at the University of California in San Francisco just issued a draft set ...

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 ...

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 ...