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  • A consumer’s guide to nanotechnology

    How cool is this: A nanotech-enabled labcoat to protect the user against… well, nanomaterials presumably, amongst other things!  The labcoat—which uses Nanotex technology to make it stain resistant—is part of a major update to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Consumer Products Inventory that tracks manufacture-identified ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on August 21, 2008
  • Lux to Nano Business: Safety Matters

    Addressing potential nanotechnology environment, health and safety (EHS) impacts up-front makes good business sense – doesn’t it?  The US-based advisory firm Lux Research certainly thinks so.  The latest document from the organization—“Nanomaterials State of the Market Q3 2008: Stealth Success, Broad Impact”—recommends investors ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on July 26, 2008
  • Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture

    Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” or Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”, and you get a glimpse into how the hacker culture that emerged at the tail end of the twentieth century revolutionized the digital world.  Will a confluence of emerging technologies—including information tech, biotech, and nanotech—lead to a similar revolution ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on June 13, 2008
  • Decoupling “nanotechnology”

    ''Nanotechnology'' as an overarching concept is great for sweeping statements and sound bites, but falls short when it comes to real-world decision-making.  As nanoscale technologies are increasingly used in everything from antimicrobial socks to anti-cancer drugs, perhaps its time to rethink how we talk about the myriad diverse technologies ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on May 17, 2008
  • Communicating nanotechnology: Image counts!

    What determines your view of nanotechnology—the message, or the messenger?  Most of us would like to think it is the message that governs our internal risk-benefit analysis.  But research published this week suggests other factors may be at work.Dan Kahan at Yale Law School and his colleagues are shaking up our ideas on effective ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on February 8, 2008
  • Nano’s silver lining is… Blue?

    So you’ve developed an obsessive nano-silver Benny the Bear paw-chewing habit, and on the advice of your hairdresser, you’re quaffing silver nanoparticle suspensions by the pint.  What do you get?  Well, according to a story airing on CNN this week, what you get is… blue skin!According to the article, Paul Karason started the transition ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on December 22, 2007
  • "Selling out" on nanotechnology outreach

    Somewhere, I must have taken a wrong turn in my life.  Three years ago, I was a serious scientist, doing research no-one understood, and writing papers no-one read. Now I find myself making videos about cream cakes.  It all started to go amiss when I got mixed up with a crowd with crazy ideas about engaging people on science.  First ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on October 27, 2007