This is the final commentary on the report titled, (INVESTING IN CANADA’S FUTURE; Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research). Part 1 of my commentary having provided some introductory ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have started testing nanoparticle drug delivery for bone tumours in dogs. From a July 25, 2016 news item on ScienceDaily, At 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 ...

To date, the real-time video, recorded by scientists from the University of Toronto, of atoms undergoing a transformation to become a new structure offers the best resolution yet, according to an Apr.

A Jan. 20,, 2017 news item on Nanotechnology Now announces research into nanoscale electrical contact technology, Research by scientists at Swansea University [UK] is helping to meet the challenge of ...

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 book titled, Barba. Life in the Fully Adaptable Environment, published by nai010 and the Why Factory, a think tank operated by Dutch architectural firm, MVRDV, and Delft University of Technology ...

Scientists at the University of California (UC) Berkeley have developed a ‘carpet cloak’ which conceals an object underneath it from view. Of course, it’s a very small object measuring 3.8 microns by ...

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 ...

Robert Pelton, Songtao Yang, and colleagues at McMaster University (in Hamilton, Ontario) have devised a means of recovering almost 100% of the mining ores being separated in a process called froth ...

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 ...

While I don’t usually blog about formal education, it is an important part of the science ‘environment’ and, last week. I came across a new development in US post secondary education which could have ...