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By now we should have learned some key facts about a Magic Nano consumer recall in Germany.

The first bit of strategy needed to complete a strategic transaction occurs well before the buying and selling of a company.

In 1849, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in California. Alas, John Sutter never prospered by this discovery.

Chris Mather had some reservations about my proposal, and for good reason. The idea was, well, unconventional.

Phil Haswell faced a formidable challenge. As the director of facilities for the engineering faculty at the University of Alberta, he was charged with finding the ideal location for the National Institute for Nanotechnology facility on the university’s Edmonton campus.

Centers’ designs, philosophies foster collaboration

Those that survived the shakeout are coming on strong

In the MEMS community, Kurt Petersen is among the legends. A paper he authored more than two decades ago about the mechanical properties of silicon paved the way for devices that have become the bread-and-butter for the MEMS industry.

The Small Times university survey included 26 questions about funding, facilities, patenting, company formation, collaborations with industry, research, publishing, and micro and nano-specific courses and degree programs.

A guide for students, researchers, inventors and CEOs

They’re smaller. They’re better.

Terry Devitt meant it as a joke. The director of research communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had asked UW chemistry professor Robert Hamers if he could make the school’s mascot, Bucky Badger, out of carbon nanofibers.

The term “cottage industry” usually evokes images of rural workers spinning textiles or hip urban geeks building Web sites in their loft apartments.

NASA’s current space mission was designed to demonstrate that good things come in small packages - and part of its plan is to showcase the role MEMS can play in space.

Industry pinpoints research areas for $20 million GoodFood project

When market analysts are right, they are revered. When they’re wrong, they’re reviled.