Army Tries to Develop Technology of the Future for the Battlefield

Dr. John Parmentola, Director of Research and Laboratory Management, the United States Army is on a mission to “make science fiction into reality.”

Introducing the amazing buckypaper

News reports that a lab at Florida State University is about to unveil a buckypapers for the commercial market. What are buckypapers you ask? Why, only ridiculously tough (albeit lightweight) sheets of matter made from intertwined carbon nanotubes. In short, future stuff.

Tiny Bible

OK, so some nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa managed to etch 300,000 words in Hebrew text (of the Jewish Bible) onto something "less than half the size of a grain of sugar."
Just one question: why?

Quantum Computing

An international team, including scientists from the London Center for Nanotechnology, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" in a ceramic without classical magnetism. The scientists found that despite the apparent classical disorder, magnetic excitations could propagate over long chains of atoms at low temperature - in the otherwise magnetically disordered material..
In quantum [...]

I Want a Nanogenerator, and I Want it Now!

Some crazy scientist cats at the Georgia Institute of Technology have dreamed up a nanogenerator, which will produce power from a number of biological sources. Flowing blood, constricting blood vessels, pumping hearts, and body heat are all potential sources. They can be used to power biomedical devices or just about anything else.
This both excites me [...]

Where Were These?!

A Japanese writing utensil mavens at Pentel combined nanotechnology and some major pow-wowing with expert aromatherapists to develop Ain Supplio pencil leads–writing leads with long-lasting fragrance that–get this–enhances your mental capacity! Now, I don’t know how true this is or where they get there data from but if it works where the heck was this [...]

Microbots’ Soccer Match

A total of five teams from North America and Switzerland built microscopic robotic competitors for the RoboCup that are around "six times smaller than an amoeba and weighed no more than a few hundred nanograms."

"If you take an ant and leave it on its own, it can’t do much. But many ants can do [...]