On the West Coast and needing your Nanooze fix? Stop by Nanooze Labs in Disneyland! This new 1500 square foot exhibit features, RopeScope, Zoom and Touch a Molecule. Located within Innoventions in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim CA, Nanooze Labs is a fun ... Read More...
Sure, maybe it is your grandfather's car. But Mercedes Benz is now nano. Not a nano car but has a nanomaterial. NANOSLIDE technology involves spraying a thin layer of carbon and iron 'wires' on the cylinder surfaces inside of the engine. How thin? About 100 ... Read More...
Maybe underarm odor isn't the most pressing problem to the planet what with global warming and hunger but it isn't something to be ignored. Especially when nanotechnology has a solution. 'Odour tags' (the British spelling) are placed in garments and supposed to stay there forever. ... Read More...
Scientists at Cornell University have developed a suitcase sized detector for anthrax. Work done by Nate Cady who is now a professor at University of Albany began almost seven years ago when he first set out to make a lab on a chip that ... Read More...
Sensors, sensors everywhere and not a drop to drink. So what good is a really rapid sensor if you have send the sample to the laboratory to be tested. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a sensor to detect heavy metals in humans. ... Read More...
Well that is the most important thing. Smoking kills. But if you are shopping for a new windpipe nanotechnology has the answer. Doctors at University College London have developed a synthetic nanometer-scale material that can be fashioned into a windpipe. Not to be content with ... Read More...
Gucci pocketbooks, Rolex watches and banknotes. What do they all have in common? They have value and there are a lot of fake ones around. In the US over the past couple of years, there are new banknotes that have things in them to ... Read More...
The impact of nanotechnology on all parts of our lives is growing. And people are worried about how things might change. There are all sorts of rules for things like professional cycling and automobile racing. Mostly stuff like what you can make bicycles and ... Read More...
Sometimes the answer lies with a very simple observation. In this case scientists in Switzerland have looked for solar cell designs by peering into the oceans. Sea urchins have a a very high surface area because they are rough. If you look closely the roughness ... Read More...
But if you do, there is a product to fix that. The people at CRC who make a lot of different products to fix your car have a new product to fix gaskets. Normally if you blow a gasket in a car engine you ... Read More...
Every want to have a little critter that you could direct like a remote control car? Scientists at the University of Buffalo have put tiny nanoparticles into the worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans because nobody wants to pronounce "Caenorhabditis"). These particles can heat ... Read More...
Smart phones, smart refrigerators, how about smart underwear? Researchers at University of California-San Diego have been making boxer shorts with tiny sensors that can measure biomarkers that are found in sweat. Biomarkers like glucose, lactic acid are all important things to measure. The ... Read More...
Scientists at MIT have developed a tattoo that can measure the amount of sugar in your blood. Read more about it in the upcoming issue of Nanooze due out in July 2010.
Communicating underwater is tough since sound waves travel differently in water than in air. Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can act as speakers 100x more effectively than they predicted. The carbon nanotubes are very ... Read More...
So nano is different but so is space. Space or more likely microgravity changes a lot of things in addition to drinking and eating and walking around. Scientists have done a lot of experiments in space looking at how cells behave. With more sophisticated ... Read More...
Getting a shot, a vaccination or something that your doctor uses a needle to give you can hurt. But does it have to hurt? Maybe not according to scientists in Australia. For a few years now they have been working on something they call ... Read More...
For a while there has been talk about distributed sensors. Planting tiny sensors all around to get an idea about what might be going on. Going on with the Earth, maybe predicting earthquakes and things like that. Why distributed? Because this way you don't ... Read More...
It was more than 50 years ago that scientists first figured out that DNA was a double helix. Figured out using some indirect measurements like the way X-rays bounced off of DNA and other things like that. Can we see DNA? Sure now with ... Read More...
Everyone wants to be an evil scientist and create their own little nanobot. Well that is hard but building something cool and entertaining with a few parts isn't. The bristle bot is a self-propelled little thing that scoots along the floor. It isn't hard ... Read More...
Little machines, so small they can enter your body and zoom around fixing stuff. The great scifi classic 'Fantastic Voyage' was all about that, shrinking not just a space ship but all of the folks inside and then zooming around the blood stream. While ... Read More...
