We need to carefully assess nanomaterials to ensure their safety, but there are questions over whether the existing practice of risk assessment is up to the task.
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Invisible under normal light but fluorescent under UV light, this ink can print out unique signatures that use ‘molecular encryption’ to authenticate anything they tag.
There is much excitement about graphene, a material only a single carbon-atom thick, but finding ways to do something with it that’s affordable have always been a challenge.
The government believes innovation will be crucial to our future productivity, yet it is threatening cuts to research infrastructure that is instrumental to promoting innovation and new technologies.
A non-metal alternative to platinum electrodes in fuel cells could make them an affordable solution for energy security.
The World Economic Forum’s new list of the Top Ten emerging technologies reminds us that the promise of innovation comes with responsibilities.
Throughout history, whenever new technologies have emerged that change our means of production and ability to communicate they have tended to transform society. The rapid technological development of the…
In the development of new drugs, taking something from nature and modifying it has been a successful tactic employed by medicinal chemists for years. Now, with the help of nanotechnology, researchers are…
Don’t be mesmerised by cool apps and flashy new gizmos – the top technology inventions of the year are ones that will have a lasting effect. Most are advances in fields that are already changing us. Some…
Most of the energy that fuels our lives comes from plants. Whether it is a fossil fuel that was formed hundreds of millions of years ago or the food we eat, all carbon-borne energy has its ultimate origins…
Development of new drugs for treatment of disease is an expensive, time-consuming and labour-intensive effort for both pharmaceutical companies and academics. For the past 15 years, “cost per approval…
It sounds like a scene from a science fiction novel – an army of tiny weaponised robots travelling around a human body, hunting down malignant tumours and destroying them from within. But research in Nature…
US researchers have invented a microchip-based test for type 1 diabetes. The test is carried out by a handheld microchip…
The creation of extremely strong, flexible, high resolution displays has been made possible with the development of “nano-pixels…
Augmenting plants with nanomaterials could increase their energy production and enhance their uses beyond natural functions…
Researchers used nano-sized levers as sensors to rapidly measure the level of antibiotic molecules in blood. Researcher Professor…
One of great challenges of the 21st century has been to develop ways to manipulate matter on smaller and smaller dimensions. As the great physicist Richard Feynman noted in his famous 1959 lecture, “There’s…
Researchers are using a combination of nanotechnology and algae fossils to develop a chemical-free way to protect stored…
Cylindrical-shaped nanoparticles are seven times more effective in delivering drugs to breast cancer cells than traditional…
Nanosponges that soak up a dangerous toxin could help treat otherwise antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria. Nanosponges are…
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