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Fred Kavli: He'll Pay for That
Editor's note: We are republishing this story, originally posted June 27, 2005,  as a tribute to business leader, physicist and entrepreneur Fred Kavli, founder and chairman of The Kavli... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - November 22, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Technology,Astrophysics,Energy & Sustainability,Space,Society Policy Source Type: news

Neuroelectronics Make Smarter Computer Chips
Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really cool device,” he recalls. He just had to connect up a cassette player for storage... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - November 6, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Technology,Computing,Neuroscience,Communications,Mind & Brain,Technology Source Type: news

Who Will Win the 2013 Nobel Prizes?
On October 7, the 2013 Nobel laureates will be announced. The selection process is highly secretive, and there’s plenty of speculation that surrounds them, much of it good natured but not very... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - October 4, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,Chemistry,History of Science,Physics,Science Education,Everyday Science,More Science,Biology,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Can Solar Power Be Cheap?
Fact 1: The primary ingredient of most solar panels is purified sand. Fact 2: Enough sunlight hits the Earth in an hour to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year. So why isn't... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - September 29, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Physics,Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology,Green Living,Energy Technology,Environment,Alternative Energy Technology Source Type: news

Carbon Nanotube Computer Hints at Future Beyond Silicon Semiconductors
Modern lifestyles may not need to curb their appetites for smaller, faster smartphones and tablets when the digital age finally runs up against the physical limits of silicon-based computer chips.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - September 26, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Technology,Consumer Electronics,Communications,Technology,More Science Source Type: news

Vote Seals the Fate of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved controversial reforms to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on 18 September. More than 330 members of the Duma voted in favor of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - September 20, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,Society & Policy,Energy Sustainability,More Science,History of Science,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Vitamin E and Other Antioxidants Dispel Static Electricity
It might be called a shock finding. Coating plastic or rubber materials with antioxidants such as vitamin E stops static charge from building up on the polymer’s surface, chemists report today.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - September 20, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,More Science,Physics,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Scientists Develop Early-Warning System for Alzheimer's Disease
A quick sniff of a nasal spray sends microscopic metal particles into the brain, where they target and destroy the damaging proteins of Alzheimer's disease. No Alzheimer's? No problem--the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - August 5, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Mind & Brain Source Type: news

Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: The Threatened Enlightenment
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Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - July 26, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,Science Education,More Science,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Physicists Debate Whether the World Is Made of Particles or Fields--or Something Else Entirely (preview)
Physicists routinely describe the universe as being made of tiny subatomic particles that push and pull on one another by means of force fields. They call their subject “particle physics”... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - July 24, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,More Science,Physics,Everyday Science Source Type: news

It s All Elementary: Decades of Insights from Nobel Laureates in Chemistry (preview)
Chemists typically concern themselves with the properties of matter at the level of atoms and molecules. That focus may seem narrow, but it is quite the opposite. Chemistry reveals a great deal about... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - June 28, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,History of Science,Science Education,More Science,Chemistry,Society & Policy Source Type: news

Cracks in the Periodic Table (preview)
In 2010 researchers in Russia announced they had synthesized the first few nuclei of element 117. This new type of atom does not yet have a name, because the science community traditionally waits for... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - June 17, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,More Science,Chemistry,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Optical Circuits: Single Photon Flips Transistor Switch
Transistors, the tiny switches that flip on and off inside computer chips, have long been the domain of electricity. But scientists are beginning to develop chip components that run on light. Last... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - June 13, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science,Technology,Computing,Physics,More Science Source Type: news

Optical Circuits: Single Photon Flips Transistor Switch
Photons emerge as competitors to electrons in new computer circuits -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - June 13, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science Physics Technology Computing Source Type: news

Plasma Scalpels May Make Surgery More Precise and Less Bloody
In medicine, plasma usually refers to the liquid component of blood. Now scientists are researching how to better harness the plasma found in stars and lightning--the fourth fundamental state of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com (Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - June 6, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: Health,Health,Medical Technology,Everyday Science,More Science,Biotechnology,Biology,Technology Source Type: news