Japan will budget 215 billion dollars over five years to maintain its reputation as a scientific powerhouse amid fears it is losing its technological edge, officials said. Source: Physorg Japan’s Nobel laureates and the Japan Business Federation had launched a…
Chuck Jaffe of MarketWatch discourages average investors from investing in today’s early nano fund: “It’s not that nanotechnology is a bad business or that exchange-tradedfunds are a poor idea. It’s that the combination of the two, at this point intime,…
Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of ‘SEOs.Source: Newsweek (By Brad Stone) Dec. 19, 2005 issue – Three years ago, the web site of Oppedisano’s Bootery, an 81-year-old shoe store…
By: Mark MillertonSource: Articles Dashboard As 2005 draws to a close, I am overwhelmed by the amount of Web 2.0 startups that this year brought. There were no doubt hundreds or perhaps thousands of new services that came about following…
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Source: PhysOrg Inspired by biofeedback therapy, Israeli researchers have developed a prototype mobile phone with a rudimentary infrared camera that can be easily, quickly, and non-intrusively used to detect the presence of breast cancer and heart disease. Infrared cameras are…
Source: Nanotech Buzz Nanotechnology is a flashpoint in the debate about our use of technology. It’s a technology that, according to M.C. Roco, chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, “is likely…
An Israeli company has recently tested one of the most shock-resistant materials known to man. Five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use as protective gear, the new nano-based material…
A simple method to create robust DNA “pyramids” that self-assemble in seconds has been invented by physicists in the UK. Source: NanotechWeb.Org Each side of the tetrahedral pyramid is made up of a double helix of DNA. The pyramids can…
from the latest issue of NanoNews-Now covering Investing In Nanotechnology.Editor Rocky Rawstern interviews nanotech investment guru Jack Uldrich. Select Quotes:Source: NanoNewsNN: What do you say to potential investors about companies that are raking in tens of millions of dollars in…
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