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Science & Tech News tagged with nanotechnology

Tell USDA: Keep Nanotech OUT of Organic!-Take Action!
Science & Tech  (tags: nanotechnology, safety, science, health, organic, GeneticEngineering )

Tierney
- 41 days ago - ga3.org
USDA's National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is voting on whether nanotechnology should be banned from use in Organic products. Thanks to your overwhelming outcry
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Transhumanism: What Are the Dangers and Benefits?
Science & Tech  (tags: transhumanism, transtopia, cryonics, science, tech, technology, biology, research, concept, design, nanotechnology, world, activism, computers, humans, engineering, physics, robotics, cybernetic, evolution, interesting, medicine, scientists )

SirRobert
- 83 days ago - mi2g.com
This website includes an accurate description of Transhumanism evolution and allows the viewer to participate within the 21st century discussions, that are determining the future of the human race's design. Become a determining part of our future now!
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Models Present New View Of Nanoscale Friction
Science & Tech  (tags: Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Friction, List of phases of matter, Nanorobotics, Materials science )

Kekuhouma
- 259 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Current nanoscale friction theories are based on the idea that nanoscale surfaces are smooth, but, in reality, the surfaces resemble a mountain range, where each peak corresponds to an atom or a molecule.
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Dust-Size "Crabs" Can Grab Living Cells (+VIDEO)
Science & Tech  (tags: health, surgery, nanotechnology, study, NewTechnology )

In A Mirr
- 302 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
After being activated by heat, a crab-like microgripper demonstrates its grabbing skills on a blue bead. The size of a dust particle, the gripper could someday be used in biopsies and surgery, a January 2009 study says.
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Government Fails to Assess Potential Dangers of Nanotechnology
Science & Tech  (tags: nanotechnology, scientists, environment, humans, dangerous, interesting )

Ingrid
- 322 days ago - sciam.com
Nanoparticles could pose human health and environmental risks and scientists recommend government research to assess the dangers.
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Nanotechnology -- the New Threat to Food
Science & Tech  (tags: genetic engineering, nanotechnology, food, humans, technology, world, scientists )

Kemsa
- 388 days ago - informationliberation.com
Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules....
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Growing Crystals and Flakes
Science & Tech  (tags: nanotechnology, research, science, crystals, flakes, scientists, investigation )

Ingrid
- 397 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Yihong, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore, and his team grow nanostructures in their lab that look like crystals and flakes.
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Nanotechnology In The Food Chain? Nanomaterials Tested Not Concentrating In Higher Level Organisms
Science & Tech  (tags: research, scientists, discovery, interesting, nanotechnology )

Ingrid
- 541 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones ...
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Nanowire 'Paper Towel' Designed to Clean Up Oil Spills
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, pollution, nanotechnology )

Isabel
- 543 days ago - livescience.com
A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, scientists announced today.
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Nanotechnology Can Bring Down Farm Production Costs
Science & Tech  (tags: nanotechnology, farming )


- 582 days ago - nanowerk.com
Nanotechnology can bring down farm production costs through precise and more efficient use of inputs. Even as biotechnology has begun displaying its prowess by facilitating the development of tailor-made products with specified genes, its complementary
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Nano
Science & Tech  (tags: Breakthrough, Energy, Energy, Energy Solar, Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Solar )

Barry
- 586 days ago - opednews.com
A team of academics based at the University of Washington have announced an exciting breakthrough in dye-sensitized solar cell technology. Researchers studying solar cell configurations discovered that by using a design based on a popcorn ball (tiny spher
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Artificial Photosynthesis Moves A Step Closer
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, technology, environment, concept, design, nanotechnology, biomimetics, catalysis, nitrogen oxide, photosynthesis, water, renewable energy )

J.
- 608 days ago - fz-juelich.de
Artificial photosynthesis may decisively contribute to solving energy & climate problems, if researchers find a way to efficiently produce hydrogen with the aid of solar energy.However, the road to success is littered with obstacles.
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Can Nanotechnology Helps Create Drinkable Water?
Science & Tech  (tags: nanotechnology, waters )

Ben
- 624 days ago - blogmyway.org
The world has becoming smaller. Everything seems to be more connected, and the saying goes somewhat like this, We are global! So don t be surprise when the poor in the other parts of the world get infect with contagious viruses that have potential to
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Handheld DNA Detector
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, computers, concept, design, detectors, forensic research, biometric, genes, dna, human biology, nanotechnology, investigation )

J.
- 625 days ago - nanowerk.com
A researcher has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem-how to design a portable DNA detector.He describes a mathematical simulation to show how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled to a DNA sensor system.
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DNA Could Spur Growth of New Materials
Science & Tech  (tags: dna, double helix, creation, science, technology, nanotechnology )

Elaine
- 664 days ago - cbc.ca
The genetic material that acts as a blueprint for life can also act as the guiding force for building a new class of nanomaterials, according to U.S.-based researchers. Writing in Thursday's issue of Nature, two separate teams of researchers say
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