Think about an artificial nose.
I’m not talking about just something to hold your glasses on to your face, but rather a device packed with a carefully woven maze of man-made chemical sensors that can detect and recognize odors.
Electronic noses – also known as eNoses — have been around for about a decade. They are instruments linked [...]

A vaccine delivered by a nanopatch works as well as one delivered with a needle and syringe, but is pain free and uses 100 times less medication, according to researchers from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.
“Because the nanopatch requires neither a trained practitioner to administer it nor refrigeration, it has enormous potential to [...]

The White House patted itself on the back and said that the federal government’s nanotechnology operation was doing a “commendable” job.
These words did not come from President Obama, but rather were the conclusion of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and 12 leading civilian experts recruited to examine what the White House-run [...]

There is nothing on this planet that doesn’t have its own unique odor. Some are enticing, seductive, even wondrous. Others are revolting, stomach-turning or repulsive.

The government has announced a multi-front battle to attack bark beetles and almost everything else in its newly launched war against climate change.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the assault Monday from his agency’s war room and called it the “first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America’s land, water, [...]

The term “beyond a shadow of a doubt” became a bit more confusing this week when Dan Frumkin and his team of Israeli forensic specialists reported that DNA evidence can be fabricated and planted at crime scenes.
Frumkin wrote in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics that DNA evidence is key to the conviction or exoneration [...]

I know it sounds weird, but scientists say they’ve tamed one of the world’s most deadly food poisons and turned it into a suicidal strain of microbes that can deliver life-saving drugs into the body.
What prompted Colin Pouton and his colleagues in Melbourne, Australia, to consider using a poison to deliver medicines?
The scientists looked at [...]