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Here are three (yesterday, I mistakenly said there would be two) more of Mr. Manning’s answers, Do you know of any areas where Canadians are leading in science and technical innovations? Some of the ...
I love the periodic table of elements and thought I was alone in my appreciation. I kept the secret close to me right into adulthood where I received quite a shock. It turns out I’m not alone and many ...
Bionym has created a device, Nymi, which allows you to use your heartbeat as a password according to a Sept. 10, 2013 news release on EurekAlert, The next generation of biometric technology launches ...
As a writer I love to believe my words have a lasting impact and while this research is focused on fiction, something I write more rarely than nonfiction, hope springs eternal that one day nonfiction ...
It’s always interesting to contrast two approaches to the same issue, in this case, innovation and education strategies designed to improve the economies of the United States and of British Columbia, ...
At last there’s a new development in smart windows giving me fresh hope that I will see these in my lifetime. From the Sept. 6, 2011 news item on Nanowerk, Researchers with the U.S. Department of ...
Read this Oct. 13, 2016 news item on ScienceDaily if you want to find out how to make your own transparent electronics, When University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers announced in the journal Nature ...
Seahorses are the object of an international citizen science project, iSeahorse, according to an Oct. 8, 2013 University of British Columbia media release, Marine conservationists from the University ...
Michael Berger at Nanowerk has written a Spotlight essay on the explosivity of nanoparticles. From the March 20, 2012 essay, Recent studies have found that nanomaterials – in this case dusts and ...
Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...
Andrew Maynard (Chief Science Adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies) has written up his impressions (on the 2020 Science blog) of the report that Which? has published on nanotechnology ...