The nutraceutical and functional food/beverage industries have maintained a steady buzz around the concept of nanotechnology, but mostly on an introductory level. However, looking forward, the impact of nanotechnology on such products will manifest in four principal ways: enhanced packaging; improv ...   read more

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Food created with nanotechnology is healthful for humans and environmentally friendly. Pro or con? Two opposing views discussed in the 'debate room' at Business Week. ...   read more

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A method of making potentially cheap ethanol fuel out of garbage and other waste materials by deploying a combination of modern and old technologies is under development by government and university researchers.

The process involves the use of nanotechnology and gasification to convert carbon-ba ...   read more

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Last year, a private company proposed “fertilizing” parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the ...   read more
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Experiments to validate the theoretical work of Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle have been funded in the UK for $3.1 million. These experiments could finally prove and legitimize critical aspects of molecular nanotechnology. Success will mean a funding wave to bring about molecular nanotechnology. ...   read more
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Exactly how do nutrients such as nitrogen move through the environment? That's a key question in ecology and environmental science. The answer may be clearer thanks to a new technique that uses the light from tiny quantum dots to trace the movement of such nutrients. The technique offers a way for ...   read more
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The Autonomic NanoTechnology Swarm (ANTS) is a generic mission architecture consisting of miniaturized, autonomous, self-similar, reconfigurable, addressable components forming structures. The components/structures have wide spatial distribution and multi-level organization. This ‘swarm’ behavior i ...   read more
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A new way to compress light, designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, could make optical communications on computer chips more practical. The researchers developed computer simulations that suggest that it is possible to confine infrared light to a space 10 nanometers wide ...   read more
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