All Articles Tagged As: politics

Panel blasts federal nanotech risk research strategy (12/14/2008)

Long-awaited report gives Obama administration direction for change ...> Full Article

People in the US and the UK show strong similarities in their attitudes toward nanotechnologies (12/13/2008)

The results of a new US-UK study published in this week's journal Nature Nanotechnology show that ordinary people in both countries hold very positive views of nanotechnologies and what the future of these technologies might bring. Participants in both countries indicated a significantly higher comfort level with energy applications of nanotechnologies than with applications used in health treatments. ...> Full Article

Nanotechnology 'culture war' possible, says study (12/12/2008)

Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.These findings have important implications for garnering support of the new technology, say the researchers. ...> Full Article

For nano, religion in US dictates a wary view (12/11/2008)

When it comes to the world of the very, very small -- nanotechnology -- Americans have a big problem: nano and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature, it seems, are failing the moral litmus test of religion. ...> Full Article

Nanotech: To know it is not necessarily to love it (12/10/2008)

Research shows cultural biases most impact opinion on nanotech ...> Full Article