News

The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) have been going since 1969 and this year, it’s being held in Montréal. Here’s more from an August 15, 2025 International Joint ...
Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that ...
ARPICO (Society of Italian Researchers and Professionals in Western Canada) is offering a scholarship (deadline Mar. 31, 2014) for Canadian students according to its Feb. 14, 2014 announcement, ARPICO ...
Turkish researchers at Bilkent University in Ankara have recently discovered a means of reliably producing nanowires through a thermal size-reduction process that will be featured on the cover of ...
Ted Sargent, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, has been mentioned here a number of times regarding his work on solar cells. Here are a few of the mostly recent postings ...
ISO has therefore published a new technical report, ISO/TR 11360:2010, Nanotechnologies – Methodology for the classification and categorization of nanomaterials, offering a comprehensive, globally ...
This is the second such conference and they are issuing a call for speakers; the first was held in New Zealand in 2014 (my April 8, 2014 post offers an overview of the then proposed science advice ...
First mentioned here in a Dec. 10, 2013 posting, Cornell University’s Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA; located in New York State) is hosting a 2014 Biennial celebrating this theme: “Intimate ...
Fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza has been making the media rounds lately about nanotechnology-enabled textiles/clothing. From the August 2, 2011 article by Jill Colvin for DNAinfo.com, Imagine clothes ...
I got an email yesterday from Carolyn Friedman notifying me that FrogHeart was on a list of 50 Forward Thinking Nanotech Blogs. I was a little mystified when I noted that the list is on a site called, ...
The critiques I offered in relation to the report’s executive summary (written in early Oct. 2012 but not published ’til now) and other materials can remain more or less intact now that I’ve read the ...
This work comes from Denmark, not a locale I associate with llamas (from an Oct. 2, 2017 news item on Nanowerk; Note: A link has been removed), Aarhus University [Denmark] scientists have developed ...