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The Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston and the University of St. Thomas will present “Science as an Adventure: A Conversation with Dr. Mauro Ferrari” on Tuesday, April 5. Ferrari, president and CEO, and Ernest Cockrell Jr., Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, will talk about the development of ideas, the sacrifice of hard work, the willingness to take risks ... Read More »

BACTERIA-busting boffins at the University of Lincoln have helped create a new “nanotechnology” which should keep diners safe from food poisoning. Experts from the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach have been working with Nottingham Trent University to design the anti-microbial spray coating for kitchen surfaces. And now they say they are almost ready to show how it banishes ... Read More »

If there’s one thing we hate more than a battery depleted sign, it’s our battery actually sinking into the depths of unknown and refusing to switch back on. It is usually combined with silent rage, abdominal shaking and swearing and then the thought of throwing it at the nearest person’s head. It usually happens in the most convenient of times ... Read More »

Call him Windsor’s Molecule Man. Recent arrival Jeremy Rawson is a molecule manipulator helping put Windsor on the nanotechnology map. The acclaimed chemistry professor moved in September to the University of Windsor from the University of Cambridge -where he worked molecular magic for 14 years, including leading a team developing non-metal magnets. University of Windsor professor Jeremy Rawson is photographed ... Read More »

NEW YORK, March 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY) noted that Solazyme, Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, March 11, 2011, to sell shares of common stock in an initial public offering. Harris & Harris Group is an investor in privately held Solazyme, Inc. Harris & Harris Group ... Read More »

With oil prices skyrocketing, transportation companies around the country are struggling to cope with higher fuel costs. But as the WXXI Innovation Trail’s Zack Seward reports, a Rochester company is using nanotechnology to help ease the pain. Cerion Energy makes a diesel additive that’s been shown to cut fuel costs by about 10 percent, while at the same time significantly ... Read More »

In the late 1990s, New York state began an aggressive strategy to attract semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology-related innovation. Here in the Mohawk Valley, EDGE led the charge with an aggressive marketing effort that was energized by Advanced Micro Devices’ 2006 decision to site a computer chip center in Malta. Since, EDGE has spanned the globe to promote the 300-acre greenfield ... Read More »