Category Archives: Science

Scientific Integrity and COVID-19

I’ve written about validating scientific findings previously.  With the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation, there have been numerous published claims of various “facts”, which are based on models.  It [..]

Science

Move over “Nano”, “Pico” is coming.

Nothing remains on top (or at the bottom) forever.  “Pico” is three orders of magnitude smaller than “nano”.  A rule-of-thumb is that to be able to manufacture or [..]

Nanotechnology, Science

The Challenges of Reproducible Research

Twice last year, April and November, this blog addressed fake science.  That challenge has not gone away based on recent news articles.  But if one assumes the research [..]

Nanotechnology Risk Management, Science

Faking Science

A portion of this topic was covered in the April 2018 blog, but enough additional material has surfaced that this information needs to be covered again.  The reproducibility [..]

Misc Ramblings, Science

Augmented Reality

Previously, I have mentioned how Augmented Reality (AR) could be employed to evaluate nanomaterial properties through being able to switch from 3-D images containing three different parameters to [..]

Misc Ramblings, Science

Structured Materials

There is more reporting of “structured” materials.  The terminology employed to define “structured” overlaps with “metamaterials”.   First metamaterials are typically an engineered assembly of various elements that are [..]

Science, Technology

Medical Nano

The development of nanotechnology in medicine is a longer-term process than nanotechnology in general.  The reason is that the application of any technology, device, or medicine to humans [..]

Nanotechnology, Science

Vacuum Tubes

This might seem like an unusual topic for nanotechnology.  The vacuum tube was the centerpiece of electronic advancement prior to solid state devices.  Their application was incorporated into [..]

Electronics, Science

More Science Fiction Benefits from Nano

It is amazing the way science fiction can influence the real world. Most recognize the cell phone as an outcome of the “Star Trek communicator”. Sure, it is [..]

Nanotechnology, Science

Science and Bullying?

Are these two themes related?   There are claims that nanotechnology causes various types of diseases, can cause defects in humans and animals, and will cause long term issues [..]

Nanotechnology Risk Management, Science