But that’s not all. Due to the size of the transistors – 20 nanometers, which is one hundred to one thousand times smaller than the thickness of a hair – it is possible to place a whole network of ...

I’ve gathered bits and pieces from various published opinions on the topic. First, there’s Brian Owen, a freelance writer in St. Stephen, New Brunswick (there’s more about him in my Aug. 18, 2015 ...

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 ...

The purpose of the expedition was to capture footage of the enigmatic giant squid in its natural habitat. The animal can grow to 35 feet or longer, and its eye is as big as your head. But it lives ...

I have a couple of announcements. First, I finally took the plunge and started a Twitter feed here. Once I figure how to put some sort of click-through or even the feed onto this site I will do it.

This is the final commentary on the report titled, (INVESTING IN CANADA’S FUTURE; Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research). Part 1 of my commentary having provided some introductory ...

4D Labs at Simon Fraser University (SFU; Vancouver), one of Canada’s nanoscienceish labs, will be hosting a new centre, according to a Dec. 18, 2013 SFU news release, A new Centre for Soft Materials ...

I have received support to attend the 2012 Canadian Science Policy Conference in Calgary! Thank you to the folks who are helping me get there and to everyone who helped with suggestions and retweets ...

I was pleased to see another item in the catalog, a video about the mesocosm project at the Center for Environmental Implications of Nano Technology (CEINT) at Duke University. I featured the mesocosm ...

Vancouver’s next Café Scientifique is being held in the back room of the The Railway Club (2nd floor of 579 Dunsmuir St. [at Seymour St.], Vancouver, Canada), on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 7:30 pm.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2010. ← Research and the 2010 Canadian federal budget; nanotechnology, hype, markets, and medicine; Visionaries in Banagalore; materials science and ...

Lancaster University’s June 6 2025 press release offers a preview of what to expect at Glastonbury’s Science Futures area, ...