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Finally there’s an answer to the question: What (!!!) is the fourth industrial revolution? (I took a guess [wrongish] in my Nov. 20, 2015 post about a special presentation at the 2016 World Economic ...

Thanks to the Nov. 7, 2011 posting on the Foresight Institute blog, I’ve found Petman, Last month we noted the impressive progress achieved by Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog project to develop a robot ...

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 ...

An April 5, 2016 editorial in Nature magazine celebrates some nanotechnology milestones (Note: Links have been removed), In March 1986, the atomic force microscope (AFM) was introduced by Gerd Binnig, ...

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 ...

I’m finally getting around to posting about the British Election and its science aspect in a little more detail than I did in my April 23, 2010 posting now that’s it been held and a coalition is going ...

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 ...

The amount IBM is investing ($1.5B) is equal to the amount for nanotechnology in the US federal budget which was passed in June (I think, I’ll have to check it). IBM is investing the money in NY state ...

Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...

Andrew Maynard (Chief Science Adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies) has written up his impressions (on the 2020 Science blog) of the report that Which? has published on nanotechnology ...