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Nanotech-based electronic noses getting smaller
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 05:46 PM - 2 days, 7 hours ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Nanowerk describes a recent advance toward the “e-nose” by an international team of researchers. Team member Andrei Kolmakov explains: Our approach demonstrates the potential of ... (Read More)
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Cellular automata used for 700-bit parallel processing
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 03:48 PM - 3 days, 9 hours ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
We’ve received an update on work by our friend Anirban Bandyopadhyay at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Here’s the abstract of his recent Nature Physics ... (Read More)
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Foresight’s student award-winners go on to great things
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 03:09 AM - 1 week, 3 days ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Foresight Research Analyst and Technical Editor James Lewis has tracked the careers of those receiving Foresight’s student award. Here are his findings on the careers of a few of these ... (Read More)
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Don’t miss the Open Science Summit, July 29-31, in person or live webcast
Monday, July 19, 2010 - 03:09 PM - 1 week, 4 days ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
The Open Science Summit on July 29-31 in Berkeley is looking better and better. Topics include OpenPCR, DIY biology, open source hardware, brain preservation, synthetic biology, gene patents, open ... (Read More)
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Single-atom sheet of carbon clears arsenic from water
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 04:22 PM - 2 weeks, 1 day ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
We can get a hint of the power coming from longer-term nanotech by seeing what is being discovered today on how to use some of the new materials becoming available. Many of us have been intrigued ... (Read More)
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Update e-newsletter: an easy way to monitor Nanodot posts
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 05:18 PM - 2 weeks, 4 days ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
If you’re having trouble remembering to stop by Nanodot (this blog), and also having trouble keeping up with your RSS feeds (as I am), there’s an easier way to keep up with Nanodot ... (Read More)
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Willow Garage reaches robotic milestone involving beer (video)
Friday, July 09, 2010 - 04:35 PM - 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Finishing off the week on a fun note, we see that robotic firm Willow Garage — of special interest to Foresight due to their emphasis on open source — has achieved an important ... (Read More)
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Nominations now open for 2010 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 04:26 PM - 3 weeks, 2 days ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
The nomination/submission process for the 2010 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology is now open. Two $5000 prizes are offered, one for theory and one for experimental achievement. ... (Read More)
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Singapore pursues Atom Technology & atomically precise manufacturing
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 05:18 PM - 3 weeks, 3 days ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Nanotechnology Now brings news of a recent Atom Technology workshop in Singapore featuring dual Foresight Institute Feynman Prize winner Christian Joachim, Feynman Prize founder Jim Von Ehr of ... (Read More)
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Investing in pre-IPO nanotech firms gets harder
Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 05:14 PM - 4 weeks, 1 day ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Small investors who want to invest in nanotech startups have for years turned to publicly-held venture group Harris & Harris Group, which has focused on private companies in nanotech and ... (Read More)
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Today’s nanotech lets $400 camera see cancer cells
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 03:32 PM - 1 month ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Frequent Nanodot readers know that our main interest is longer-term nanotech, but sometimes what’s happening today gets pretty exciting as well. A quick summary of recent advances in ... (Read More)
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Finally: all nanotech degree programs listed on one site
Monday, June 28, 2010 - 04:55 PM - 1 month ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
For years we’ve watched academic degree programs in nanotechnology being announced piecemeal, or in partial lists. Now it looks like Nanowerk has stepped up to the task of keeping a complete ... (Read More)
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Top-down nanotech marching downwards (in a good way)
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 04:36 PM - 1 month ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Nanowerk brings us news of advances at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology : Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore ... (Read More)
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Webcast and comment online to President’s Council on nanotech
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 12:50 PM - 1 month, 1 week ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Tihamer Toth-Fejel let us know that the public can comment online today, right now, our views on nanotech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast President’s Council of ... (Read More)
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Open Science Summit to be streamed live
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 05:00 PM - 1 month, 1 week ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Not able to attend the Open Science Summit on July 29-31 in Berkeley, California? We’ll miss you, but you can watch the conference live at: ... (Read More)
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New open-access nanotechnology journal from Beilstein
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 05:20 PM - 1 month, 1 week ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Those of you with a background in organic chemistry will recognize the venerable name of Beilstein , originally a handbook of organic chemistry which evolved into a database, later combined with ... (Read More)
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Join us at Singularity Summit, Aug. 14-15 on intelligence augmentation
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 03:00 PM - 1 month, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Many Foresight leaders and members will be gathering at this year’s Singularity Summit in San Francisco, expected to draw up to 1100 participants. It’s a bit pricey, but it’s for ... (Read More)
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Singularity University in the New York Times
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 04:09 PM - 1 month, 2 weeks ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Our friends over at Singularity University are described in some detail in a long article in the New York Times . An excerpt, with names familiar to Nanodot readers as speakers at Foresight ... (Read More)
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H+ Summit “Rise of the Citizen Scientist” webcast this weekend
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 05:36 PM - 1 month, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
If you can’t make it to Harvard this weekend, June 12-13, you’ll want to catch the live webcast of the H+ Summit: “Rise of the Citizen Scientist” . No link yet, but ... (Read More)
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Nanotech = Hot job of 2018, says Wall Street Journal
Monday, June 07, 2010 - 04:21 PM - 1 month, 3 weeks ago - Nanotech - Nanodot - Foresight news and discussion
Here at Foresight, we’re always trying to help those looking to move their careers in the direction of nanotechnology. Now the Wall Street Journal is predicting that this should pay off: ... (Read More)
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