Mamata Banerjee won big on two fronts today. She won a legal battle against Ratan Tata that’s centred on the land allotted to him in Singur. She also won her assembly by-election from her constituency of Bhawanipore by nearly 50000 votes. She was earlier an MP. Her legal victory was declared first this morning. The Calcutta High Court ruled that the Singur Land Rehabilitation Act is constitutional and valid. The Act was introduced in June by Mamata Banerjee shortly after she was elected Chief Minister of West Bengal. It allowed her government to cancel a 99-year-lease signed with Mr Tata for nearly 1000 acres for his Nano factory. The deal had been signed by the Left which lost to Ms Banerjee in the state elections in May this year.
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RMIT University academic Dr Kay Latham explains how nanotechnology works. Watch other videos in this series goo.gl And if you have a question about how something works that you want answered, hit us up here ow.ly Study Science at RMIT www.rmit.edu.au
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Video from NASA: ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov This video highlights nanotechnology R&D at NASA and its many potential applications for space exploration. The video stresses collaboration as key to the success of applied nanotechnology.
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Cell-mediated immune response (CMIR) and antibody-mediated immune response (AMIR) presented courtesy of KOCE TV.
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by Samuel Pinches Your guide to Nanotechnology with Prof C. Arbon One of our entrants to the TechNyou Science Ambassador Contest for more info on our contests, go here: technyou.edu.au/competitions

what nanotechnology is and its possibilities

(June 23, 2011) Due to its ability to enable materials, devices and systems with new properties and functions, nanotechnology is viewed as «the next industrial revolution». Aymeric Sallin explains how investors find the most promising nanotech start-ups and transform the companies into profitable businesses.
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NANOWEAPONRY: THE NEWARMS RACE – Nanofactories make the manufacture of many kinds of weapons possible with incredibly accurate computerized systems. While older technologies were both difficult and costly, nanoweapons could be manufactured easily and quickly. Conventional style weapons made more powerful and new weapons such as poison-carrying nanorobots could be made by the billions nearly cost-free and delivered remotely. Once inhaled, they might even be tailor-made to kill only people with specific genetic signatures, thus used as a means for ethnic cleansing. An arms race could trigger reckless development and testing of new weapons with unpredictable results. Experts agree this is probably the #1 potential danger of molecular nanotechnology. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND EXISTENTIAL DANGERS – The use of nanofactories to make countless cheap, durable products could lead to ‘disposable thinking’ where products are created en mass and discarded in abundance, overwhelming recycling needs and the environment. Poor nations might use biomass (carbon-rich trees) as fuel for nanofactories, leading to increased deforestation. Experimentation in nano-augmentation of plants and animals (for example, to make them larger, smaller, faster, stronger, etcetera) could easily lead to runaway consequences in the wild (“green goo” vs “gray goo”) that could threaten existing plants and animals, affect the food chain, and pose unforeseen threats to human life. This is a prime concern. Ecophage …

The video is about the exponential progression of information technology (exemplified by eg Moores Law), and how that in combination with more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and the reverse-engineering of the human brain in the future could lead to a technological singularity, as theorized by people such as Ray Kurzweil. It discusses the development of technology as an evolutionary process, and shows by examples that evolution is an exponential process. The video also mentions how more advanced technology in the future could enable us to cure aging, and how this can give us eternal life (or at least enable us to live indefinitely), as proposed by people such as Abrey de Grey. The video also mentions the potential of molecular nanotechnology, and technologies such as virtual reality. It argues that investing in science and innovation is the best way of solving our challenges of global warming, resource scarcity, global poverty, and lack of space and resources due to population growth. CHARITIES THAT I RECOMMEND 1. The Open Cog Foundation: opencog.org 2. The Foresight Institute: www.foresight.org 3. The X-prize foundation. Watch video here: www.youtube.com Donate here: www.xprize.org If you know of good charities promoting research and innovation that will bring about long-term technological progress, then leave a comment, and I´ll consider including them. A FEW FAQ 1. Won´t the robots turn against us like they do in Hollywood-movies? I don´t think so. First of all I …
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Jason R. Dwyer is a professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island where he leads a research team working at the nexus of chemistry, physics and biology. In this lecture, Dwyer, a bottom-up nanotechnologist who works on the development of nano-sensors, discusses where nanotechnology is today via some examples of current applications and where the field is going over the next 10-20 years.

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