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Hyderabad Brings Out India's First Magazine on Nanotechnology
Summary posted by Meridian on 6/16/2009 India's first magazine to focus exclusively on nanotechnology, Nano Digest, has hit the news stands. The inaugural edition was unveiled by C.N.R. Rao, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council to India's Prime Minister and National Research Professor, Linus Pauling Research Professor and Jawaharalal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), and is considered to be the "Father of Indian Nanotechnology." The magazine is described as the one-stop source for information and news about nanotechnology. The cover story features Professor Rao speaking about the state of nanotechnology in India, the directions it needs to take, and what it has in store for every Indian. The publication is targeted at nano-professionals and industry personnel, with monthly features on research, development, technological advances, trends and business news. The article can be viewed online at the link below. The original article may still be available at www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/other/2009061527522.htm As tagged by Meridian Institute:
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Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: Options for Framing Public Policy
-- The Innovation Society (2/8/2010) The Governance and Ethics Unit of the Directorate General for Research (DG Research) of the European Commission (EC) has published an overview paper on options for framing public policy on nanotechnologies. [More]
UN Patent Filings Dropped for 1st Time Since 1978
-- ABC news (2/8/2010) The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an entity through which a company can, for a fee, file a request for patent protection in any or all of the 142 countries that have subscribed to the U.N.'s Patent Cooperation Treaty, reported that the number of international patent filings dropped last year for the first time since 1978. [More]
TECHNOLOGY: Science Panel Probes Renewable Energy's Current Use of China's Rare Metals
-- Environment & Energy Daily (2/8/2010) A United States House of Representatives Science and Technology subcommittee this week will hold a hearing on rare earth mineral production and the resource's role in the growing clean energy industry. [More]
Nanofood for Thought
-- Nature Nanotechnology (2/5/2010) This editorial, in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, is in response to the recent report, "Nanotechnologies and Food", released in January by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, United Kingdom, that criticized the food industry for failing to be transparent about its research into the uses of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. [More]
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