innovation Channel
- Nanotechnology for ‘smart’ soldier uniforms
May 10, 2008
MIT’s Paula Hammond talks about using nanotech to protect against a biological or chemical attack.
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- George Whitesides: watching me, watching you
May 09, 2008
In this 9-minute Clear Voices for Science podcast, George Whitesides of Harvard University discusses how innovations in nanotechnology could affect personal privacy.
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- Keith Schwab: watching me, watching you
May 08, 2008
In this 8-minute Clear Voices for Science podcast, Keith Schwab of Cornell University talks about how nanotech shrinks electronic devices — including those for surveillance and record-keeping.
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- Paula Hammond: watching me, watching you
May 06, 2008
In this 8-minute Clear Voices for Science podcast, MIT’s Paula Hammond talks about nanotechnology’s potential to monitor just about anything.
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- Kristen Kulinowski: clean, green, and unseen
Apr 30, 2008
In this 9-minute Clear Voices for Science podcast, Kristen Kulinowski of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University explores what nanotechnology means to the consumer – and the environment.
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- Rosalyn Berne: forever young
Apr 29, 2008
In this 10-minute Clear Voices for Science podcast, Rosalyn Berne talks about the ethical, cultural, and societal implications of nanotechnology
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Blogs In Innovation Category
Personal Helicopter
by Jeremy ShereThe iconic vision of the technological, space-age future used to be the personal jet pack--a strap-on device that would allow people to zip around the clouds, presumably wherever and whenever…
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The waking up syndrome-
by Beverly Spicer
I received this article over email recently, and I want to share it with the Earthsky community: THE WAKING UP SYNDROME by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell "Humankind cannot bear very much…
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California compostin' leads to mighty fine wine
by Dan KulpinskiIt's a sustainability success story: San Francisco food scraps help fertilize Northern California grapes, which are used to make wine of which many Americans partake. …
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- Sunlight and mirrors - voila! electricity!!
by Beverly SpicerSOLAR THERMAL ENERGY. An article by Joseph Romm on Salon.com says "the solar energy you haven't heard of is the one best suited to generate clean electricity for generations…
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- Big step forward for 'green gasoline'
by Dan KulpinskiOne day the gasoline in your car might come from plants -- and no, I'm not talking ethanol. I'm talking actual gasoline made from a plant. …
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