Opinion
The idea that not everyone wants or needs a college degree is having a political moment. After years of the ‘college for everyone’ push, it’s about time.
Aug. 25, 2024
Business
A group of businessmen came together during the pandemic and made $5 billion in revenue selling COVID tests to the British government. Then the lawsuits started.
July 17, 2024
Science & Medicine
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time.
May 24, 2013
With IBM colleague Gerd Binnig, Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which can show individual atoms on a surface and move them around.
May 23, 2013
Climate & Environment
A shift from harmful herbicides to intelligent robots would have far-reaching consequences for California’s $50-billion agriculture industry.
July 22, 2024
Tiny cylinders used in some products act like asbestos, a study finds.
May 21, 2008
The use of subatomic materials as building blocks for consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that there is little monitoring of nanotechnology’s effects on health and the environment.
Dec. 12, 2006
California
The Berkeley City Council approved the nation’s only local nanotechnology regulations, another first for the city famous for taking the lead banning Styrofoam containers, desegregating public schools and divesting public funds from South Africa.
Dec. 14, 2006
Richard Smalley, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was the co-creator of the miniature spheres of carbon called buckyballs and who is widely considered the father of nanotechnology, died Friday at M.D.
Oct. 30, 2005
The Next Big Thing is very small. Exactly one-billionth of a Thing.
Nov. 23, 2003