New nanotech advances point to a future with intelligent metals that repair themselves. Think the Terminator from T2, but less evil and more useful.READ»
Recently, Panasonic unveiled a new robot that looks like a washcloth--Except for the fact that it crawls along the floor, mopping up as it moves along.
The secret of the Fukitorimushi--which ...READ»
Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a new use for nanotechnology--as an extremely precise way of delivering chemicals to the right part of the brain to combat drug addiction. And, pleasingly, the science really does ...READ»
Self-healing materials have been invented before, but they have been clunky: They usually "bleed" epoxy, which then hardens; that requires a circulatory system for the goo, or microcapsules embedded in a medium. Now, a ...READ»
The list of useful applications for carbon nanotubes seems to be growing exponentially: Yesterday there was news that the material could strengthen carbon-fiber even further, and now there's news of a breakthrough in making ...READ»
Within the next couple of years, "we'll start seeing the benefits of nanotechnology in health care," Dr. Paras N. Prasad says. The University of Buffalo prof will present his big, small vision in the keynote at the sixth ...READ»
Nanotechnology is all about the science and engineering of incredibly small devices, so breakthroughs in information storage density are to be expected. But a team from two U.S. universities has achieved a breakthrough in ...READ»
Hydrogen's promise as an incredibly useful fuel has long been known. It's light, clean, non-polluting, and not overly difficult to produce. But researchers have recently cracked a new more effective method for producing the gas that's ...READ»
Digital photography has leaped forward over the years for three reasons: improved batteries, larger and cheaper memory cards, and revolutions in sensor technology. And now researchers in Scotland are trying to improve the sensors even ...READ»
Carbon nanotubes are one of the nanotechnology wonder materials of the near future, used in electronics, optics, for super-strong materials and as novel semiconductors, but there are emerging concerns about the environmental and ...READ»
Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»
