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"A new type of memory device has been made by researchers in the US and Italy by attaching individual viruses to tiny specks of semiconducting material called quantum dots."

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"...there’s still more work to be done before we can create artificial self-replicating systems. Let’s take a look at the history of the concept in recent times."

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"Is this a method for making the kind of lightsail Robert Forward once analyzed as a way of getting payloads and human crews to nearby stars?" I don't know, but I sure hope it is.

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The entire text of the original 'Blood Music' nanotech story, online as a teaser for Bear's forthcoming shorts collection at Tor Books. Via MundaneSF.

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"The nanoworld cannot be portrayed with a camera, nor can it be seen even with the most powerful optical microscope. Only special instruments have access to images of the nanoworld." Mind-bo

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"After a decade of work, the first millimeter size turbine engine developed by researchers at MIT should become operational by the end of this summer."

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"A nanomachine proposed by a famous scientist 140 years ago has finally seen the light of day, thanks to boffins at the University of Edinburgh." Old-school high tech.

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"According to this argument, any research into molecular manufacturing (MM) should be blocked because this technology might be used to build systems that could cause extraordinary damage."

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"A research team [...] was the first to design a molecule that can move in a straight line on a flat surface. Now this team has found a way to attach cargo: two CO2 molecules, making the nano-wal

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"I ran into Brian Dunbar of the Liftport Company in the comments section over at Murdoc Online, and asked him if he’d do an interview." This is part one thereof.

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"The pinion is a 1.8-nm-diameter molecule functioning as a six-toothed wheel interlocked at the edge of a self-assembled molecular island acting as a rack." Whoa.

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"The world’s smallest construction site is taking shape in a laboratory in Switzerland, thanks to the development of new welding techniques that work at scales of a billionth of a metre."

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"The new car, which includes a light-driven engine, opens the door to future development of more sophisticated nanomachines that could be used, among other things, for targeted drug delivery with

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"The US public feels that nanotechnology is more risky and offers less benefit than bicycles [...] The technology was, however, seen as more beneficial than handguns." Is it just me, or are

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"Researchers [...] have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer." For a ridiculously tiny piece of cheese, mind you.

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"Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets..." Ouch.

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"Environmental and health risks stemming from nanomaterials are real and need to be addressed head on by both industry and regulatory bodies, experts said this week at a conference." Media h

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"Borrowing a page from nature's playbook, researchers ... have developed a novel platform for the self-assembly of experimental hierarchical surfaces in a fluid." Heavy science, but interest

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"Forget home-printed assault rifles and field-produced drones. Forget gray, green and red goo. The real danger we will face in the time of molecular manufacturing is spam." Ye gods, will it

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"Homo connectus will relegate the obsolete nation-state and its dysfunctional institutions to artifacts of history, quaint but useless." Where do I sign? ;) This sounds like a book worth rea

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"Mike Treder from the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology ... says advanced nanotechnology, like these nanofactories, could help solve world poverty but it could also wreak economic and social

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"A nine-point plan for the responsible development of nanotechnology in Australia has been recommended in a new report. But environmental and worker safety groups are still not happy." Hmm..

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"New materials like carbon nanotubes will complement, not compete with, conventional silicon devices." A notable lack of blue-sky hyperbole here. Good stuff.

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"Molecules capable of basic logic operations have been developed that could serve as tiny ID tags for identifying individual cells or nano-devices." There'll be no digging these little sods

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"A single cobalt atom has been made to hop back and forth between two positions in response to an electric current...technique could some day lead to the development of "atomic switches"

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Worldchanging, as always, has the reasoned and sensible skinny on regulating an exciting but potentially hazardous new industry.

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Just how exactly will a home fabricator nanofactory work? The CRN boys have the lowdown. Link via AdvancedNanotechnology

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A smart little short-short SF story by Douglas Rushkoff. Well worth the five minutes it'll take to read it. Link via BoingBoing.

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Duuuude, like, how totally sweet is that? Nanotech is radical. Link via NanoBot.

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