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The 2013 London Science Festival (Oct. 23 – 30, 2013) celebrates opening night with a 170-year-old engineering feat. From the festival news release, Mingle with some of the UK’s top engineers and find ...
For the second time in a row, Vancouver’s (Canada) Café Scientifique is at Yagger’s Downtown (433 W. Pender), which is hosting the upcoming August 2016 Café Scientifique talk. From the August 24, 2016 ...
The Space Centre is also introducing two brand new programs with the digital system launch: The Searcher and IBEX: The Search of the Edge of the Solar System. A third program, an immersive music show ...
As noted in a previous post, I’m not super impressed with the ‘War on Science’ branding favoured by a distinct portion of the Canadian science community as I find it reductionist. After all, Canada’s ...
Rwanda and its technological prowess is a story that has been emerging for some time. On the occasion of hosting the 2016 World Economic Forum on Africa, Milton Nkosi has written a May 13, 2016 ...
For the most part the speakers will be academics or government bureaucrats and while the title is ‘cellulose nanomaterials’ the speaker list suggests the topic will be heavily weighted to CNC/NCC ...
Eighteen percent of participants belonged to a group labeled the “new technology rejecters,” which would not by GM or nanotech foods under any circumstances. Nineteen percent of participants belonged ...
It’s Carbon. LiteWire is an aligned structure double wall carbon nano-tube’s in wire form. It is a 99.9% carbon structure that takes advantage of the free electrons available in carbon, while limiting ...
Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that ...
Came across an item about a 3-D graphic novel that features nanotechnology. The author, Gina Miller aka nanogirl, was interviewed by Gavin Sheehan for City Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah, that is). From ...
There’s not much time left if you want to participate in this Kickstarter project (20 hours and counting when I accessed it at 0930 PST Dec. 20, 2012) but I want to feature it here because it ...
A Dec. 24, 2013 news item on Azonano announced a radio interview with Eugene Seymour, Chief Executive Officer of NanoViricdes, The Company today announced that Michael Yorba of Clear Channel’s ...