The Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU) has unanimously passed a resolution supporting calls for regulating nanoparticles and recommending that workplaces use only nano-free sunscreens. The AEU resolution recognised that nanoparticles in...
Is the new wave of science communication – web-based, renegade and prolific – going to democratise science or not? Are social media simply the latest frontier for public engagement? FOEA recently got together with scientists, science communicators, policy...
Nanotechnology is often promoted as a means to end hunger, dramatically reduce disease, or even to overcome poverty – in short, as a boon for the world’s poorest people. However, in a new book chapter, we observe that to date nanotechnology development...