nanotechnology: 1/10 of 10
Nanotechnology: are we risking too much?
Tom Levitt
23rd July, 2009
Are we ready to trust policymakers and scientists as they judge the potential and acceptability of nanotechnologies? more...An audience with Sir David King
Jon Hughes
1st February, 2007
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square? more...EU Parliament and the European Food Safety Agency to tighten up regulations on nanotechnology
News
15th April, 2009
Green campaigners have welcomed moves by the European Parliament to introduce new rules on nanomaterials in cosmetics. more...Size really does matter
Dr Naomi Salmon
19th June, 2008
Nanofoods are the next big thing, but whatever happened to the precautionary principle asks Naomi Salmon more...Apocalypse Now
Maria Gilardin
1st February, 2006
How mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the earth. more...More Than Enough
Bill McKibben
1st May, 2003
By rendering our skills, intelligence and labour redundant, nanotechnology is incompatible with meaningful human existence. By Bill McKibben. more...Terrorism and globalisation
Fritjof Capra
1st May, 2003
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability more...Future Perfect?
Jim Thomas
1st May, 2003
No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing counteracted. The next stage of evolution or a nightmare we can never wake up from? Jim Thomas on ‘converging technology’. more...Who's In Control?
Jeremy Smith and Tom Wakeford
1st May, 2003
The public must play a significant role in any decisions made about the development of the new technology. By Tom Wakeford more...Promising the World, or Costing the Earth?
The Ecologist
1st May, 2003
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise. more...