6 posts and columns on nanotechnology

Listen Closely: That's the Sound of Thousands of Mesothelioma Lawyers Rubbing Their Hands Together

in News on May 23, 2008 at 9:29 am PT

Carbon nanotubes are apparently the new asbestos. According to a study overseen by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, carbon nanotubes not only look like asbestos fibers, but behave like them as well. And, just like asbestos fibers, they can cause mesothelioma, a cancer that occurs in the lining of the lungs.

Listen Closely: That’s the Sound of Thousands of Mesothelioma Lawyers Rubbing Their Hands Together

in News on May 23, 2008 at 9:29 am PT

Carbon nanotubes are apparently the new asbestos. According to a study overseen by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, carbon nanotubes not only look like asbestos fibers, but behave like them as well. And, just like asbestos fibers, they can cause mesothelioma, a cancer that occurs in the lining of the lungs.

Uncle Sam Wants YOU to Go Digital

in News on January 3, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Our Sperm Engine? It's a V8 — 8 Flagella Mounted on the Crankcase

in News on January 2, 2008 at 2:17 pm PT

Here’s a rather odd hybrid vehicle equally at place in the annals of science and science fiction: a sperm-powered nanoscale robot. Scientists at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health have nearly managed to reproduce (no pun intended) the minute biological engine that powers a sperm’s flagellum. That engine runs on a high-energy molecule called [...]

Our Sperm Engine? It’s a V8 — 8 Flagella Mounted on the Crankcase

in News on January 2, 2008 at 2:17 pm PT

Here’s a rather odd hybrid vehicle equally at place in the annals of science and science fiction: a sperm-powered nanoscale robot. Scientists at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health have nearly managed to reproduce (no pun intended) the minute biological engine that powers a sperm’s flagellum. That engine runs on a high-energy molecule called [...]