Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have started testing nanoparticle drug delivery for bone tumours in dogs. From a July 25, 2016 news item on ScienceDaily, At the ...

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 ...

The myth of Canada’s nanomaterials reporting plan/inventory lives on. A group (Program on Reproductive Health and Environment) at the University of California in San Francisco just issued a draft set ...

Whose Electric Brain? (Presentation) from Maryse de la Giroday on Vimeo. I’ve come across a few errors; at one point, I refer to Buckminster Fuller as Buckminster Fullerene and I state that the ...

Scientists at the University of California (UC) Berkeley have developed a ‘carpet cloak’ which conceals an object underneath it from view. Of course, it’s a very small object measuring 3.8 microns by ...

According to an August 4, 2020 news item on ScienceDaily the ‘Ice-phobic’ properties of moths’ eyes have inspired a new technology, Researchers have been working for decades on improving the ...

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 ...

Most people know this from experience. We laud creativity in theory while attempting to crush it in practice. If you doubt this, try launching a new idea at a meeting. In fact, trying to launch a new ...

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 ...