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Nanobots: It's No Nonsense

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100

This story tickles the sci-fi geek in me. While many view nanobots as a pipedream, the development of these cancer-detecting nanowires is a clear indicator that nanotechnology is progressing in so many sectors, from computing to ...READ»

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Fuel-Making Solar Nanotube Device Eats CO2

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

Developments in Nanotechnology continue apace, and a new invention using nanotubes promises an eco-friendly approach to both consume CO2 and produce useful fuel as a bi-product. The device was created at Pennsylvania State ...READ»

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Nanotech Invention May Be Golden Bullet for Controlling Drug Addiction

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

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»

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Quantum Dot Eyeball-Injection Could Improve Sight

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

There's an increasingly large body of work on returning vision to people with damaged sight due to retinal failure: Recent advances in artificial retinas have been particularly amazing. But new research and an associated patent ...READ»

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Horseradish To Clean Up Risky Carbon Nanotube Spills

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

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»

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Nanotech Storage Invention Squeezes 250 DVDs Onto A Quarter

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

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»

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Carbon-Nanotube Memory Catches Up With Flash

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as solutions to a host of modern technical problems, from space elevators to pin-point accurate drug delivery. But a more viable role for the 'tubes is as a computer memory storage device. And a ...READ»

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Prosthetic Retinas Possible With New Light-Sensing Nanotubes

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100

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»

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Cancer-Fighting Nanoparticles Could Herald Real-Life Medical Innerspace

BY Addy Dugdale
Relevancy Score: 100

The first set of trials using nanoparticles to fight cancerous cells have completed, withREAD»

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Nano Is Nice

BY Michael Fitzgerald
Relevancy Score: 100

Bruce Stewart is building a nanotech research conglomerate.READ»

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New on Nano

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 97

I read Ray Kurzweil's book, "The Singularity is Near," late last year. It's an exploration of how technology will rapidly transform our society in the next few decades. Nanotechnology is a crucial part of the equation and gets ample ...READ»

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Nanotech Cloth Could Prevent Scalding Accidents

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 96

We're all used to water-repellent materials nowadays, and it's no surprise to see droplets running off special cloth without wetting it. The technology has, however, only worked for cold water. Until now, thanks to ...READ»

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Spray-On Solar Ink Could Be Just 3 Years Away

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 94

It's 2014. Instead of hiring workers to install solar panels on your roof, you spray solar ink all over the rooftop and sun-facing walls of your home. It's not science fiction--it could be reality in three to five years according to ...READ»

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Honey, I Shrunk The Memory! Scientists Heralding Smaller Gizmos, Again

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 91

Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»

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Batteries That Go Ten Times Longer

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 90

Eat your heart out, Energizer bunny. Battery maker Contour Energy Systems has snapped up some MIT nanotechnology that can give lithium-ion batteries a tenfold increase in power--eliminating all concerns about the range of electric cars.READ»

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Extreme Upcycling: Turning Plastic Bags Into Carbon Nanotubes

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 82

Companies like Terracycle are great at upcycling trash into brand new consumer products, but researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois are taking the concept of turning trash into treasure to new heights with a ...READ»

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Airplane Skins: 10 Times Stronger with Nano-Stitching

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 82

Composite materials are increasingly a feature of our engineering--they're super-strong and light, outperforming metals like steel with ease, which is why they're often used in aeronautical engineering. Now a group at MIT has figured ...READ»

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Nanovor, a New Game That Will Lunch on Kids Everywhere

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 81

Caveat parentis: Nanovor is coming. Something akin to the Pokemon phenomenon, it may soon sweep the world, seizing kids in its grip and voraciously sucking cash from your wallet. The secret sauce is in the game's online/real world ...READ»

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NanoMed

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 80

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»

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New Chip Technology Could Help Computers Think on Their Own

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 76

While there's a lot of work to push nanotechnology as the future of computer chips, good old-fashioned semiconductors still have a lot of life in them yet: and they've recently been given a boost with a radical new type of circuit ...READ»

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38. From Lab to Fab

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 76

Previous | Next It's rare to find people who can talk about nanotechnology in the present tense. But Greg Schmergel happily (and patiently) explains how his company, Nantero, managed to introduce its carbon nanotubes into ...READ»

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38. From Lab to Fab

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 76

Previous | Next It's rare to find people who can talk about nanotechnology in the present tense. But Greg Schmergel happily (and patiently) explains how his company, Nantero, managed to introduce its carbon nanotubes into ...READ»

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Nanowire Skin May Grant Robots a (Very Limited) Sense of Touch

BY Dan Nosowitz
Relevancy Score: 69

Researchers at Cal Berkeley have come up with a new nanowire "skin" prototype that some are touting as either a future robotic skin or prosthetic. That might be overly optimistic, but it is a very promising technology.READ»

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Nano-Tech Japanese Aqua Drop Game

BY Miller Huang
Relevancy Score: 68

You've no doubt heard about how nano materials are going to revolutionize our existence on earth... but frankly we've seen none of the microscopic robots and superconductive microprocessors we were promised. Fortunately Bandai Japan ...READ»

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60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 68

SpaceShipOne took the $10 million Ansari X Prize for shuttling into suborbital space twice in two weeks. But it was Peter Diamandis, aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created the competition. Now, Diamandis, 42, has moved onto smaller things -- a new prize for nanotechnology. He spoke to Fast Company about his uncharted worlds.READ»

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