Sir Harold Kroto, a Nobel Prize winning chemist, will lecture on Feb. 19 at the Townsend Performing Arts Center on the University of West Georgia campus.

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells.

NanoBio Corp. , based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has been awarded a patent for the technology behind its anti-infection and dermatology drugs.

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.