The White House has signed off on a report detailing the full scope and breadth of the budget request and research vision established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which includes a heightened commitment to using nanotechnology to fight weapons of mass destruction.
Scientists and government officials this week debated how nanotechnology might help ? or harm ? the environment, just as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares to launch its first investigation of the potential "dark sides" of the industry.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is gathering information on the potential perils of nanotechnology even while it's enlisting the science in its fight against pollution.
The scientist who coined the term nanotechnology warned Tuesday that development of “extremely powerful, extremely dangerous technologies” must be shepherded by stewards tutored in both its promise and its peril.
The NanoBusiness Alliance, the first trade organization dedicated entirely to nanotechnology, lobbied the U.S. congress recently on the importance of funding nanotechnology research.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected nanotechnology as one of its major research emphases during the next decade.
Web sites and a broad sweep of electronic databases are being targeted by the military for a vast surveillance project aimed at detecting incidents of bio-terrorism before it's too late. The project is applauded by people toiling against bio-terrorism, but privacy advocates, while not condemnatory in this early stage of the research, warn against building a system that is overly intrusive.