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Nanotechnology is forecast to underpin “the next industrial revolution”, leading to far-reaching changes in social, economic and ecological relations. Yet whereas the health and environment risks posed by nanomaterials are attracting an increasing amount of...

The new National Nanotechnology Strategy Taskforce report “Options for a National Nanotechnology Strategy”, released by Industry Minister Macfarlane on 12 September, fails to address the most significant public interests issues raised by nanotechnology, suggesting that the...

By Gyorgy Scrinis. Reprinted from Arena Magazine, No. 83, June/July, 2006 Nanotechnology — a new range of techniques for engaging with and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level — is being hailed...

In early July 2006 I was invited and journeyed as the FOE Australia Nanotechnology Projects representative to Zurich to participate in the International Risk Governance Council Conference on Nanotechnology. The purpose of the conference...

The scientific and business community are still struggling to understand the global public rejection of genetically engineered (GE) foods, and with the growing discourse around the risks and disruptive impacts of nanotechnology, many are...

A new study by researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s research laboratories in North Carolina has found that nano particles used in some sun creams have the potential to cause neurological damage. A...

The nanotechnology issue of Chain Reaction, Friends of the Earth’s quarterly magazine, provides a great introduction to this powerful new technology. Chain Reaction tackles all the hard issues that industry and government are attempting...

Amid growing reports of nanotoxicity (download briefing below), in an effort to bolster public confidence in nanotechnology, top nanotechnology analyst and advocate Lux Research Inc has called for strong regulation of nanotechnology’s environment, health and safety...

Go figure? It turns out that ‘Magic Nano,’ the protective glass and bathroom sealant that was recalled in late March in Germany after causing severe breathing problems for some consumers, did not contain any...

Canberra Times, 8th May 2006, by John Hepburn The release last month of a Federal Government discussion paper on the development of a national nanotechnology strategy created ‘nano ripples’ throughout the community – so...