From the article by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times: More than 40 years ago, Alvin Toffler, a writer who had fashioned himself into one of the first futurists, warned that the accelerating pace of technological change would soon make us all sick. He called the sickness “future shock,” which he described in his [...]
In the 1940s, an elite team of mathematicians and scientists started working on a project that would carry the U.S. into space, then on to the moon and Mars. They would eventually become NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (or JPL), but here's what made them so unusual: Many of the people who charted the course to [...]
From Nanowerk News: Catalysts are at the heart of fuel cells-devices that convert hydrogen and oxygen to water and enough electricity to power vehicles for hundreds of miles. But finding effective, inexpensive catalysts has been a key challenge to getting more of these hydrogen-powered, emission-free vehicles out on the road. To help tackle this challenge, [...]
Better access to relevant and understandable information about nanomaterials both for European citizens and experts. That is the main goal of an agreement signed between the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the Commission on the European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EU-ON). The signing of the delegation agreement marks the formal kick-off for ECHA to start [...]
From an article posted by AZoNano: The American Cancer Society reports that every year, over 700,000 new liver cancer cases are diagnosed globally. Currently, the only way to cure liver cancer is to surgically remove the cancerous part from the liver or to perform organ transplantation. However, an international study carried out by researchers from [...]
From an article by Jorge Salazar at phys.org: It sounds like something out of the Borg in Star Trek. Nano-sized robots self-assemble to form biological machines that do the work that keeps one alive. And yet something like this really does go on. Every cell in our body - be they flesh and blood, brain and everything [...]
From an article by David Nield at Science Alert: A simple algorithm could explain the inner workings of human intelligence, and it could one day be encoded into artificial intelligence (AI) systems, researchers suggest. It's a mind-bending idea: that all the complex thoughts running through our heads are the product of a set of definable [...]
Aiming to intensify contribution in the field of Nano medicine, India on Thursday launched a first-of-its-kind Indian Society of Nano Medicine (ISNM). ISNM is an initiative which will bring several Indian nano technology researchers together and use it for slashing high cost of medicines, provide customised treatment and improve diagnostics. It's biggest advantage to the [...]
AIDA (Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment) is an international collaboration to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impact, consisting of two missions: the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) and the ESA (European Space Agency) AIM (Asteroid Impact Mission). DART is the kinetic impactor, targeted to the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, in NASA Phase A study [...]
From Nanowerk (Source: By Arnab Hazari, Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan): For the past four decades, the electronics industry has been driven by what is called “Moore’s Law,” which is not a law but more an axiom or observation. Effectively, it suggests that the electronic devices double in speed and capability about [...]
