Food safety is being reshaped by nanotechnology, which offers new tools to detect, monitor, and control contaminants with greater speed, sensitivity, and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Clark T. Bell In recent ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are reshaping research across all scientific disciplines. In nanotechnology, the increasing ...

We may soon be hearing much more about nanotechnology and its potential to have a major impact across a wide range of industrial and consumer-facing applications. Nanotechnologists focus on the study ...

The term "nanotechnology" was coined by Professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 at the Tokyo Science University. He introduced it in a scientific paper presented at the International Conference on ...

Light-bending structures: MIT's 'implosion carving' creates nanoscale photonic devices for visible-light computing, enabling optical calculations and potential high-speed imaging applications. Printed ...

A new study may offer a strategy that mitigates negative side effects associated with intravenous injection of nanoparticles commonly used in medicine. A new study may offer a strategy that mitigates ...

DNA nanotechnology has become an intense research field, with hundreds of research labs engaged in it, based on the idea that DNA can be used as a programmable structural material for the creation of ...

Flasks of quantum dots fluorescing at the Nobel Prize announcement. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Quantum dots brilliantly fluoresce: They absorb one color of light and reemit it nearly ...