Tag: NANOTECHNOLOGY

The scientific and engineering possibilities of carbon nanotubes are hard to overestimate, but a study out of the UK might put a damper on the small-scale party for a while: mice injected with certain lengths of nanotubes developed lung problems similar to those caused by asbestos. Apparently the long, straight shape of the nanotubes causes problems for the lining of the lungs designed to deal ...

A study to be published in the journal Science holds promise for the future development of tiny, handheld supercomputers. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and the University of Rome teamed to examine how nano-sized wires behave in the micro-world. The wires, millionths of a millimeter in size, are the key to producing microchips small ...

Looking at the picture of the sun here, you might shrug your shoulders. After all, it's nothing much to look at when compared to the works of art many celebrities are becoming thanks to the wonders of Photoshop. But considering that this picture was printed using 20,000 microscopic blobs of gold -- each just 60-nanometers wide -- and it's suddenly more interesting. To get an idea of just how small ...