Nanotechnology & Development News - Meridian Institute Meridian Institute's Nanotechnology and Development News ceased operation in September 2013 after 10 years of service on September 4, 2013. We appreciate the support over the years from our funders and subscribers. If additional funding becomes available, we will resume the news service. In the meantime, given Meridian Institute's long-term interest and work on nanotechnology issues, we would appreciate staying in touch with those in the field. Previously, Nanotechnology and Development News provided succinct summaries of the most pertinent news stories, op-eds, journal articles, and reports on scientific innovations and technological applications; policy issues; risk-related information; intellectual property rights and access to data; technology transfer and capacity building; global and regional networks; and economic development. Information and Resources Nanotechnology, Commodities and Development Nanotechnology, Water and Development
Whole Systems This area is devoted to the study of whole systems. Nature is a whole system. But also an economy, a family, a company, a community, or many other things, can be looked at as whole systems. A whole system view would include all the factors involved and examine how they relate to each other and how they work as a whole. Whole systems are dynamic, they change they move, they develop. There is no one authority in the field of whole systems. There is a Whole Systems mailing list for the exploration of whole systems principles, particularly in regards to economic, ecological, sociological and metaphysical transformation of our civilization. 4/24/2004: Note that this page has not been actively updated for a long time. Subjects and Disciplines Whole Systems Design Networking - (50+) The Networking Institute. Learning Organizations (100+) Mind Mapping Total Quality Management, Kaizen home page Holographic Universe Holonomics Cybernetics and Systems Theory - (200+) Principia Cybernetica General Semantics
San Diego State University Department of Astronomy Nanotechnology News 3 hrs ago | Business Wire Research and Markets: Global Nanoelectronics 2014-2020 - Profiles of Companies This 240 page report covers the raft of applications and end products enabled by nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the electronics sector. Trending on the Topix Network Tue Apr 15, 2014 Nanodot US government report highlights flaws in US nanotechnology effort Here at Nanodot we often report on basic research that may lie on the path to atomically precise manufacturing, and we also frequently report on nanoscale science and technology research that promises near-term revolutionary developments in medicine, computation, energy and other application areas, but we seldom have anything to say about the ... ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Vitamin B1 Derived Blue and Green Fluorescent Carbon Nanoparticles for Cell-Imaging Application A carbon-based fluorescent nanoparticle is considered to be a new generation nontoxic nanoprobe suitable for various bioimaging and sensing applications. Newswise
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Science The more we understand about science and its complexities, the more important it is for scientific data to be shared openly. It’s not useful to have ten different labs doing the same research and not sharing their results; likewise, we’re much more likely to be able to pinpoint diseases if we have genomic data from a large pool of individuals. Since 2004, we’ve been focusing our efforts to expand the use of Creative Commons licenses to scientific and technical research. Science Advisory Board Open Access The Scholars’ Copyright Project Creative Commons plays an instrumental role in the Open Access movement, which is making scholarly research and journals more widely available on the Web. We’re also expanding Open Access to research institutions. We’ve created policy briefings and guidelines to help institutions implement Open Access into their frameworks. Open Data At Creative Commons, we believe scientific data should be freely available to everyone. Learn more
Sigalon's NanoTech Soup Of mice and molecules: In vivo photoacoustic imaging using semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (Phys.org) —Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging modality, based on the photoacoustic effect, in which non-ionizing laser pulses are delivered into biological tissues. (More specifically, in the photoacoustic effect sound waves form due to pressure changes when a material absorbs varying-intensity modulated or pulsed light. These waves are then detected by, for example, microphones or piezoelectric sensors. The resulting photoacoustic signal is the current or voltage that provides the value indicating how the sound waves vary in time.) National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) Programming Collective Intelligence Subscriber Reviews Average Rating: Based on 8 Ratings "Useful book on machine learning, etc." - by Alex Ott on 20-JUL-2011Reviewer Rating: Very good introduction into machine-learning, information retrieval & data mining related questions. "A 'Hands On' book on Artificial Intelligence" - by Tushar Goswami on 14-MAR-2011Reviewer Rating: After digesting some half a dozen books over the past few years on AI & NLP, I have had enough of 'theoretical' & 'over detailed description' of AI fundamentals & algorithms. But its not the copy-pastable code alone, the Chapter 12 which gives a Black-&-White comparison of AI algorithms comes handy when you want to measure the shortcomings & strengths of various algorithms (by the way, you may also want to compare efficiency between algorithms by using on AI toolkit, like the Weka UI). One another AI book which I find pretty much hands-on is 'Collective Intelligence in Action' by Satnam Alag. "Small Bug" - by TomSmith on 06-JUL-2010Reviewer Rating:
At the Heart of Hartley-2, a New Breed of Comet? At the Heart of Hartley-2, a New Breed of Comet? At the heart of every comet lies a remnant of the dawn of the solar system. Or is that remnants? Astronomers don't know, but the answer would give them a clearer picture of exactly how comets were born eons ago at the birth of the Solar System. For Hartley-2, the answer so far is neither. Both data collected by Mumma's team and detailed images of the comet taken by NASA's EPOXI mission reveal that the comet's core is not uniform. The researchers observed Hartley-2 six times during the summer, fall and winter of 2010, both before and after the EPOXI mission's Deep Impact spacecraft had its November rendezvous with the comet. The gases and rocky particles that make up the coma are the clues that astronomers use to deduce what the core is made of, and thus its origin. Ices in Hartley-2 are mostly made of water, along with traces of many other types of molecules, the team learned. First of all, they saw the comet's wild side.
University scientists study superconductors The fastest trains in the world don’t drive. They fly. Japan’s Maglev Shinkansen trains, which have achieved record speeds of up to 361 miles per hour, literally float above their tracks, thanks to powerful superconductors, which scientists believe may also one day be used to revolutionize power transmission and electric car motors. In the two decades since high-temperature superconductivity was discovered, however, scientists have failed to understand the phenomenon thoroughly enough to fully harness its tremendous potential. A research group led by University physicists has now found that this failure may be due to a pervasive misconception in the scientific world about the very nature of high-temperature superconductivity. Superconducting materials conduct electricity without dissipating energy at either very high or very low temperatures. The discovery of low-temperature superconductors dates back to 1911. “We were astounded,” Yazdani said of the discovery.
Einstein's Big Idea Einstein's Big Idea PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating outwards from the wire. HUMPHRY DAVY (Dramatization): What? WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. MICHAEL FARADAY: You see, John? ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people... CAPTAIN: Lavoisier. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: ...it is they who will determine right and wrong. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you are being absurd. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. LISE MEITNER (Dramatization): Yes?