I like to collect (desultorily) items about science-themed music and Marian Call’s recently completed (very successful) Kickstarter campaign (she received $63,0000 in pledges having asked for $11,000 ...

SFU’s Café Scientifique will be presenting three events this coming Fall (from an August 31, 2022 announcement received via email and from SFU’s Community page), Note 1: Tickets are free; Note 2: SFU ...

Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that ...

ARPICO (Society of Italian Researchers and Professionals in Western Canada) is offering a scholarship (deadline Mar. 31, 2014) for Canadian students according to its Feb. 14, 2014 announcement, ARPICO ...

Apparently, the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, will be visiting Canada’s National Institute of Nanotechnology in Edmonton, Alberta tomorrow: Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010.

I am miffed, only 14 correct answers in a quiz with 19 questions. Personally, I think there’s something wrong with Discovery Channel’s Can you tell fact from fiction? Take the molecular nanotechnology ...

Alex Bellos describes a fascinating interplay between culture, mathematics, and stamps in his Nov. 4, 2014 posting on the Guardian-hosted Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, If you add the numbers in ...

View®, the leader in dynamic glass, today announced the results of a study on the impact of in-terminal passenger experience and its correlation to higher revenues and reduced operational expenses.The ...

Turkish researchers at Bilkent University in Ankara have recently discovered a means of reliably producing nanowires through a thermal size-reduction process that will be featured on the cover of ...

This entry was posted in education, nanotechnology, science communication and tagged Alberta Science Foundation, Arlene Ponting, David Cramb, Do you know what nano means?, International Academy of ...

Ted Sargent, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, has been mentioned here a number of times regarding his work on solar cells. Here are a few of the mostly recent postings ...