Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from thecanadaproject appears online and in newspapers and literary journals. Poems from thecanadaproject will be the ...

Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, just announced that the company will invest $6B to $8B for new and upgraded manufacturing facilities to produce 22 nanometre (nm) computer chips. From ...

Michael Berger at Nanowerk has written a Spotlight essay on the explosivity of nanoparticles. From the March 20, 2012 essay, Recent studies have found that nanomaterials – in this case dusts and ...

This UK funding competition for nanotechnology-enabled healthcare projects is the first time I’ve seen where they offer the academic and business funding together. From the Sept. 14, 2011 news item on ...

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 ...

Here are the details about this book launch event, Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies: Book Launch Please join us for the launch of Evan Michelson’s new book, Assessing the ...

Techdirt had an item, Intellectual Property Laws Rewrittten as Poetry. The poet, Yehuda Berlinger, has included Canada’s copyright law in the oeuvre. You can read the verse here. It’s surprisingly ...

This morning, I was excited to receive a news release about Dr. Hongbin Li’s recent work which has been published in Nature magazine. A Canada Research Chair in Molecular Nanoscience and Protein ...

This is pretty remarkable. Usually when researchers talk about invisibility cloaks, they’ve managed to cloak something that is measured at the nanoscale. Here they’ve (Fractal Antenna Systems Inc.) ...

Professor Ted Sargent, electrical and computer engineering professor at the University of Toronto, heads an engineering research team which recently published a paper about solar cells and colloidal ...

Baba Brinkman, the Canadian science rapper [ETA: Brinkman is really a rapper of diverse interests who also raps about science] has a new album, The Rap Guide to Human Nature. I found out about it ...

If you have some technical skills, are comfortable speaking in front of large crowds and can travel for a total of approximately 3 months out of a 12 month period, then you might want to take a look ...