The luxury makeup company Chantecaille hawks1.7 ounce pots of high-tech sounding "Nano Gold Energizing Cream" for $420. Other cosmetics companies avoid references to nanotechnology like a dead rat on the samples counter.

Pin-sharp projections, light that's whiter than white, varnishes that make sounds if the temperature changes: at nano tech 2010 in Tokyo, Fraunhofer researchers present nanotechnology that is a veritable feast for the senses.

SNM's Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Summit wrapped up today in Albuquerque, N.M., with in-depth discussion-and a high sense of energy looking ahead.

As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, a separate but equally compelling challenge exists.

Back in 1994, Leonard Hobbs, now process engineering department manager and research programs manager for Intel Ireland, helped transfer a 0.5-micron CMOS process to Dublin, making Fab 10 Intel's most advanced wafer facility when it opened that year.

James Chon of MelbourneAfA A A A1 2A A A1 2s Swinburne University of Technology holds up a DVD that can store data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2,000 movies onto a single disc.

A day on the tools just got a whole lot sweeter for the nation's tradesmen, thanks to a new range of so-called smart clothing that kills body odour.

Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced a $5.7 million investment that will expand upon university research efforts, bring new products to the marketplace, and educate the next generation of high-tech workers.

New research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering could prevent bacterial infections using tiny biochemical machines nanofactories that can confuse bacteria and stop them from spreading, without the use of antibiotics .

Scientific platform: G.J. Samathanam, Advisor and Head, Technology Development and Transfer, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, addressing a conference at Anna University, Tiruchi on Thursday.