The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inderscience Publishers, researchers describe an early prototype for a nanoassembler.

By Duke, Selwyn Good and bad things come in small packages. Ever since the dawn of the atomic age, the world has been a different place. This change is epitomized by an image we've all seen, that of a nuclear detonation and ensuing mushroom cloud.

The potential for nanotechnology to "build molecu

By Destefani, Jim NANOTECHNOLOGY DRAWS REGULATORS

In the summer of 2002, MIT's new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) found itself at the center of a controversy. The subject of debate was not the technical specifications of a new nanomaterial or a breakthrough in nanoscale electronics. It was about a comic book.