Category: Nanotech, Chem and Materials
In recent years, the government has made moves to support making the results of taxpayer-funded research available to taxpayers for free. A new bill in Congress attempts to pull the plug.
Raise your hand if you ever heard of the Trabant. No fair Googling. OK, so you did anyway, and you now know that it was the world’s first mass-produced automobile made from bio-sustainable and recycled materials – mostly duroplast, a plastic resin composed of wool or cotton fiber – much of it from industrial waste.
As I wrote recently, Stephen Quake has been writing about conflicts of interest in research over at The Wild Side blog. He proposes solving these problems with peer review. I like the article, and he has many thoughtful things to say on the topic, but I don't really understand this proposal.
The problem of conflicts of interest in science is not going to go away.
One of my articles is highlighted on the website of Mineralogical Society of America:
http://www.minsocam.org/pr20.html
What's in the Stimulus Package for science?
With all the bad news lately about peanuts and salmonella, it’s probably time for somebody to point out that George Washington Carver had nothing to do with it! Sure, Carver invented hundreds of products made from this lowly root crop – but history shows he also cleaned his processing equipment! And while we’re at it, there’s no better time than now to reacquaint ourselves with Carver, a man who so revolutionized agriculture a century ago that we’re just now coming to understand.
Could hamsters help solve the world's energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to provide a new and renewable source of electricity.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully modified a common plant virus to deliver drugs only to specific cells inside the human body, without affecting surrounding tissue.
I've just updated http://www.ceria.ru. Please find new articles devoted to hydrothermal and solvothermal synthesis of nanocrystalline ceria as well as microphotographs of cerium nanoparticles possessing various morphologies.
We've just created our new site devoted solely to cerium dioxide and its unique properties. I hope it will be of interest for scientists and industry representatives dealing with rare earth elements. Welcome to http://ceria.ru
Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light.
Engineers at the University of California at San Diego have come up with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use of nanotubes and stem cells.
Researchers have discovered a way to control the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.
The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority in certain critical areas, according to a new expert report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).
