Issue

During the past couple of weeks I have heard the comment, “size doesn’t matter,” from a variety of sources.

Scientific progress is a balancing act: Weigh the empirical evidence and determine the appropriate balance between allowing new technologies and protecting public health.

“[Nanotechnology] is becoming real a lot faster than I was anticipating,” says Feynman Prize-winning researcher Stan Williams, whose work is profiled in this issue’s Q&A feature.

As micro- and nanotechnologies begin to mature, industry salaries increase

A new breed of sophisticated, low-cost microscopes is enabling new vision for industry and academe

Stan Williams and his colleague Greg Snider at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., have completed research that could lead to making field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) up to 8x denser-while using less energy for a given computation-than those currently being produced.

Gaming for the greater good is the higher purpose of PlayGen’s managing director Kam Memarzia, one of the founding members of the London-based interactive media company that uses game technology for learning rather than just entertainment.

Small tech for food safety applications, a high-voltage CMOS process with embedded flash, an interstellar compass, and more…

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has demonstrated a new way to slip drug-bearing nanoparticles through the body’s protective shields of mucus while surprising even themselves with just how big these microscopic delivery vehicles can be constructed.

MEMS technology has been used to gain significant improvements in a number of electronic and industrial applications, but until recently, the area of electronic circuitry has been neglected.

Nanotech development is beginning to benefit from methods popular in the pharmaceuticals industry

Aerospace systems engineers are famous for their tendency to levy impossible specifications on materials and components.

Nanotech start-ups are finding great deals on used semiconductor processing equipment that can be altered to fit their needs

As Goliath Ltd. prepares to debut its nanotech-enabled product, the David Co. brandishes its slingshot full of patents

The fifth category - work force - of our state rankings shows few surprises. The density of the East Coast and the engineering clusters around national labs play a big factor in pushing certain states ahead.