It’s SuperSaver time for anyone planning to attend the 17th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. (For anyone who wants to see the various tracks that undergird the overall theme [Toward a ...

Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from thecanadaproject appears online and in newspapers and literary journals. Poems from thecanadaproject will be the ...

There’s a great article (Serious Science, Comic-Book Style) by Catherine Clabby in American Scientist about an exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History that combines graphic novel/comic ...

I found this item in a newsletter/quoi de neuf that the Canadian Science and Technology museum sends out. From the April 30, 2011 newsletter, University of Ottawa uses Museum collection for Atomic ...

Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, just announced that the company will invest $6B to $8B for new and upgraded manufacturing facilities to produce 22 nanometre (nm) computer chips. From ...

Michael Berger at Nanowerk has written a Spotlight essay on the explosivity of nanoparticles. From the March 20, 2012 essay, Recent studies have found that nanomaterials – in this case dusts and ...

Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...

This UK funding competition for nanotechnology-enabled healthcare projects is the first time I’ve seen where they offer the academic and business funding together. From the Sept. 14, 2011 news item on ...

This entry was posted in biomimcry, coatings, nanotechnology and tagged airplane wings, American Instittue of Physics (AIP), anti-icing, anti-reflective effects, de-icing, eyeglasses, ice-phobic, ...

Here are the details about this book launch event, Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies: Book Launch Please join us for the launch of Evan Michelson’s new book, Assessing the ...

I like to keep up with the nanocellulose scene so I’m featuring this item even though it’s a bit late and a bit thin. From the March 29, 2012 news item on Nanowerk, CelluForce, the world leader in the ...