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...
New researched published in Nature Nanotechnology shows that nanoparticles can damage DNA and chromosomes in cells, across an intact barrier of other cells. The research suggests that nanoparticles could cause cancer, or even birth defects, without crossing biological...
There are increasing government initiatives here and around the world to let the public “have its say” on nanotechnology issues. Yet in their article, published in the journal Nanoethics, Griffith University’s Dr Kristen Lyons and The Change...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing its policy on how nanomaterials are assessed (or not) for their environment risks. This could result in the EPA closing legal loopholes by finally agreeing to treat manufactured nanomaterials as...