Nanotherapeutics & diagnostics: a leading edge symposium on medical nanotechnologies inspired by Nature. Thursday, Jun 6, 2013     8:15am – 6:30pm, Amphitheater, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

Scientists have made key advances toward practical uses of a new genre of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be implanted into the body to relieve pain or battle infection for a specific period of time, and then dissolve harmlessly.

Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project - which scientists said has reached an advanced stage - that would turn algae into solar-powered factories for producing the "wonder material" nanocellulose.

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study.

Researchers have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies. Magnetic switching is used to encode information in hard drives, magnetic random access memory and other computing devices.

Academics have demonstrated for the first time that a “sonic lasso” can be used to grip microscopic objects, such as cells, and move them about.

A team of scientists has produced 3-D images and videos of a tiny platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reveal new details of defects in nanomaterials that have not been seen before.

Announcing EuroNanoForum 2013, arguably one of the most important events of the nanotechnology calendar. Dublin, 18-20 June 2013. 

Ditch the 3D glasses. Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye.

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have developed a thin material called a 'mantle cloak,' according to a report published in the New Journal of Physics Tuesday.