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Australian Nano Business Forum Send National Delegation to Nano Tech in Japan

For the second consecutive year the Australian Nano Business Forum (ANBF) has led a highly successful national Delegation to the Annual Nano Tech International Exhibition and Conference currently underway in Tokyo, Japan...

14 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Business Leaders to Meet With Key Legislators in Washington, D.C

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced that many of its members will converge in Washington, D.C. from February 26 - 28 for its annual Public Policy Tour. As ...

12 Feb 2008

Wisconsin Calles for a State Registry of Nanoscale Materials, What is Being Produced and in What Quantities

Growing concern over the potential risks that nanotechnology might pose to the environment and human health have some lawmakers and state agencies looking into how they might regulate the technology, which is already bei...

12 Feb 2008

iPod Nanos up for Grabs as Prizes for Having Nanotechnology Knowledge

Five free iPod Nanos are up for grabs! Winners will be randomly selected from entrants who successfully complete a five-question "Nano-IQ" test posted on the newly redesigned Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Web site

12 Feb 2008

European Commission Grant for International Research Project on Regulating Nanotechnologies in Europe and the United States

Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Chatham House, Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), an initiative of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Pew Charitable Trusts, have been awarded a $587,000 European Commission grant to conduct an international research project on regulating nanotechnologies in the European Union and United States.

7 Feb 2008

Future of Nanotechnology Will Depend on Public Viewpoint of Potential Risks and Benefits

When the public considers competing arguments about a new technology's potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert...

6 Feb 2008

Smart Dust Surveillance Examined in New Book

In the near future, every manufactured product – our clothes, money, appliances, the paint on our walls, the carpets on our floors, our cars – will be embedded with intelligence, networks of tiny sensors and ...

4 Feb 2008

Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program Kicked off With DuPont Submitting Titanium Dioxide Light Stabilizer for Consideration

DuPont has submitted documentation related to DuPont(TM) Light Stabilizer 210, a new titanium dioxide product with a sizeable percentage of particles in the nanoscale, as a demonstration of its support for the new U.S. E...

30 Jan 2008

Nanolipidic Particles Used as Taste Masking Agents

dermaCM, announces successful findings of a double blind human taste test using proprietary nanolipidic particles (NLP) to mask the taste of sodium chloride in distilled water preparations. Taste-masking nanotechnology c...

30 Jan 2008

First Steps Taken by the EPA to Address Nanotechnology Safety With More Action Required to Ensure Public Confidence

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published today in the Federal Register its plan for the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The plan takes a positive fir...

29 Jan 2008