Nanotechnology Risks Unknown
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The United States is the world leader in nanotechnology -- the newly blossoming science of making incredibly small materials and devices -- but is not paying enough attention to the environmental, health and safety risks posed by nanoscale products, says a report released yesterday by the...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to regulate a large class of consumer items made with microscopic "nanoparticles" of silver, part of a new but increasingly widespread technology that may pose unanticipated environmental risks, a government official said yesterday.
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The field, expected to become a trillion-dollar industry by 2012, promises a host of technological and medical advances while also stirring fears because some of the products appear to be toxic and many are not regulated.
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Well, it is very small and hard to see A report published in the December issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology highlights the fact that 69 per cent of Americans have heard little or nothing about nanotechnology, despite the fact that this Christmas there are over 350 nanotechnology-based products on the shelves.â¦
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The company's latest nanotech development could pay dividends over the long term.
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Academics say safety concerns of new generation of plants have not yet been addressed
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A new inexpensive nanoglue that becomes stronger as it heats up could redefine the way computer chips are made.
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Ultrasmall technology, revolutionary impact.
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What exactly is nanotechnology? It's not easy to define, especially since scientists and engineers don't necessarily agree on one answer. The science crosses over into various disciplines, with the intent of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular levels to create materials that can improve...
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Says government has failed to act Nanotechnology will be the next industrial revolution, and if the UK wants a piece of the action, it has to move now to fund research in the subject.â¦
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For a science that's about manipulating substances at the molecular level, nanotechnology is starting to bring big profits to many consumer product makers.
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There's plenty of action -- and volatility -- in the nanotech sector. Should Fools patiently sit on the sidelines?
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By Whitesides, George M  Travelogues from Lilliput THE DANCE OF MOLECULES: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. Ted Sargent, xx + 234 pp. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. $25.  NANO-HYPE: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. David Berube. Foreword by Mihail C. Roco. 521 pp.
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Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, March 7  /PRNewswire/ -- Nanotechnology -- the so-called "science of the small" -- is raising some really big questions about the adequacy of the current federal oversight system.
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Nanoparticles allow researchers to initiate biochemical events at will.