Unions, toxicologists call for urgent action to avoid asbestos tragedy – label carbon nanotubes now
In a new story on The 7.30 Report, nanotoxicologist Assoc Professor Paul Wright (director of the Nanoafe Australia research network) and Assoc Professor Tom Faunce (medicine and law at the Australian National University) have backed calls from the Australian Council...Carbon nanomaterials delay rice flowering, reduce seed set, are passed on to seeds
We now know that both titanium dioxide nanoparticles (used in sunscreens, cosmetics, food packaging, paints, clothing and more) and carbon fullerenes (used in high end anti-ageing creams and mooted for use in medicines, solar cells and superconductors) can be passed...“A change of paradigm for nanotechnology regulation in Europe”?
The June Newsletter of the Innovation Society (St Gallen, Switzerland), suggests that a series of legislative amendments adopted by the European Parliament over the past two months “might herald a change of paradigm for nanotechnology regulation in Europe, from...Social implications of a nanotechnology ‘revolution’?
We hear lots of predictions that nanotechnology could drive the ‘next industrial revolution’, or ‘transform every aspect of our lives’. We hear less discussion about whether or not we should take such predictions seriously, or what social...Crazytech
Stupid technologies we don't need.....
And that could destroy life on Earth.
And that could destroy life on Earth.