Putting thousands of jellyfish in a blender to make a smoothie sounds like the start of bad joke. In fact, it's one way to source ingredients for a new generation of solar power solutions that could aid medical science and offer cheap energy.
Forgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on.
Tiny technology
updated: Tue Sep 22 2009 15:32:00
CNN.com's Liz Landau explains how two leading nanotechnology researchers are developing more efficient ways of delivering electrical power.
CNN.com's Liz Landau explains "nanobees," tiny particles designed to destroy cancer cells.
They're ready to sting, and they know where they're going.
A group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.
Imagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the "organic" label is a lie. Similar tools could track the chemical content of water in a stream, telling you if there was lead contamination and when it got there, or keep constant watch on a bridge and tell if a structural steel beam was at risk of collapse.
A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.
By 2020, will cancer be a disease of the past? CNN spoke to scientist Naomi Halas and explored her vision of a world where cancer can be cured with tiny gold-coated nanoparticles.
Want to get rid of germs? Mold and grime? Smelly feet?
A new breed of nanobots is being designed to assist doctors by going where no surgeon or technology has gone before.
THE END OF CANCER. FREEDOM from the tyranny of oil. A World Series for the Cubs. None of that is impossible. In preparing this survey, FORTUNE canvassed numerous scientists and other respect- ed th...
BOUNDING UP THE STAIRS AT THE BEIJING Genomics Institute, Darren Cai, vice president of business development, pulls a flight ahead of me before I realize that the usual pace here is close to a spri...
One summer day in 1985, not that long before he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for a device he had invented five years earlier for seeing atoms, known as a scanning tunneling microscope, IBM sci...
One of the least important things about nanotechnology is that it is small.
Like music fans sliding CDs into stereos, scientists in biochemistry and pharmaceuticals labs have recently been loading little square thingies called LabChips into novel, toaster-sized machines. T...
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