Topic: nano-ethics
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Trust is hard won and even harder to understand. Expecting honesty and good science to win the day may hinder communication efforts and with issues such as vaccination have global implications.
Tags: bio-ethics, emerging technology, nano-ethics, science communication, trust, vaccination
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
“Smart dust” — tiny digital sensors worldwide that gather all sorts of information and communicate it to powerful computer networks that monitor, measure and understand the physical world in new ways. Some ambitious sensor research projects provide a glimpse of where things are headed.
Tags: emerging technology, IT, nano-ethics, nanoparticles, sensor
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
SAFENANO provides a summary of key nano health and safety developments from 2009, and considers how these are likely to shape nano in 2010.
Tags: carbon nanotubes, nano silver, nano-ethics, nano-safety, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, regulation
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
A European consortium has just published a review of the health and safety of engineered nanomaterials.
Tags: carbon nanotubes, nano silver, nano-ethics, nano-safety, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, regulation
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Eminent researchers predict where the future lies ten years from now for their areas of expertise.
Tags: bio-ethics, biofuels, biotechnology, emerging technology, genetic engineering, nano-ethics, nanotechnology, synthetic biology
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
A House of Lords report is critical of the food industry’s lack of transparency with its research into the uses of nanotechnologies.
Tags: House of Lords, nano-ethics, nano-foods, nano-safety, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, public engagement, regulation
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
In a few decades human and machine will merge, illness will be eradicated, and human beings will live to 150. Take a journey into the imaginations of scientists and futurists pondering ways to use nanotechnologies, and discussions about how society should or could use them.
Tags: carbon nanotubes, nano silver, nano-ethics, nano-safety, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, quantum dot, regulation, science education, solar
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
It may not be the nano-sized autonomous bots roaming your body fixing dodgy parts and eliminating disease, but this article in New Scientist reveals what nanotechnologies are or soon will be helping achieve in the field of robotic medicine.
Tags: cancer, medical and health, nano-ethics, nanobots, nanotechnology
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Your pocket guide to the emerging industry of nanotechnology: Contains Australian research and overseas research, covering nanotech in consumer products, health and food, water and the environment, energy development and nanosafety and regulation.
Tags: emerging technology, energy, environment, ethics, nano-ethics, nano-foods, nano-safety, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, regulation, science education
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
A US research engineer says nanotechnology can place us on the path to freedom and happiness for all – or mostly all. Will society choose to take this path, however?
Tags: emerging technology, nano, nano-ethics, nanotechnology
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