It’s SuperSaver time for anyone planning to attend the 17th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. (For anyone who wants to see the various tracks that undergird the overall theme [Toward a ...

Here’s the information from Euractiv JobSite for the Policy Officer on Chemicals and Nanotechnology position at the EEB – European Environmental Bureau (note: I have edited this so you may want to ...

Before I get to the rap, I have some funding news. NISE Net has $3000 grants (one time only) available for projects that engage local audiences in nanoscale sciences, engineering, or technology topics ...

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The amount IBM is investing ($1.5B) is equal to the amount for nanotechnology in the US federal budget which was passed in June (I think, I’ll have to check it). IBM is investing the money in NY state ...

The timing for Deborah Rowe’s article in the Guardian newspaper is fascinating. Rowe is writing about nanoscale biosensors developed at the University of Edinburgh, research published in Dec. 2013, ...

Thanks to the Nov. 7, 2011 posting on the Foresight Institute blog, I’ve found Petman, Last month we noted the impressive progress achieved by Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog project to develop a robot ...

Most people don’t think of algorithms as having biases and stereotypes but Michael Zou in his Sept. 26, 2016 essay for The Conversation (h/t phys.org Sept. 26, 2016 news item) says different, Note: ...

Roel Vertegaal at Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) has released a ‘paper’ tablet. Like the bendable, flexible ‘paper’ phone he presented at the CHI 2011 meeting in Vancouver, Canada (my May 12, ...

NaNoWriMo is the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, a fact which amused me muchly given my Pavlovian response to seeing NaNo. Since this does relate to writing, one of my other passions, I’m ...