Late lessons from early warnings

Governments are failing to properly regulate nanotechnology according to a hard-hitting new report released by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Despite early warnings of the damage some nanomaterials could cause, governments are still reacting too slowly to...

Beyond safety – some bigger questions about new technologies

This is reprinted from “A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series”, hosted by Andrew Maynard’s 2020 Science blog The promise that a given new technology will deliver environmentally benign electricity too cheap to...