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 ...

Lancaster University’s June 6 2025 press release offers a preview of what to expect at Glastonbury’s Science Futures area, From climate change to robot surgeons, and from spiders to AI and deepfakes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

This Nov. 11, 2010 news item (on Nanowerk) about Toyahashi University (Japan) and a symposium they’re holding caught my attention, Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) will hold an ...