X-Message-Number: 15684
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:03:52 +0000
From: "Joseph Kehoe" <>
Subject: [off topic snippets]

Another nano idea
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41492,00.html

He [Hubert] explained that the Nano Assembly system does things that can already
be done today --

but with considerably better results using a more flexible system that results 
in a more reliable

and cheaper end product. His invention offers the capability to move piles of a 
few thousand

atoms at a time into patterns and structures at the size scales of individual 
viruses and proteins.


Nanotechnology needs the tools to make working, three-dimensional nano machines 
possible.

This is what his "pick-and-place" does better than anything out there today, he 
said, leading to

a potential technology in which entire segments of a person's genome could be 
decoded in real-time.


Lots of good stuff here...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/specials/washington_2000/newsid_645000/645041.stm

New World. New science. The 2000 annual meeting of the American Association for 
the Advancement

of Science's (AAAS) was held in Washington DC. This is BBC News Online's record 
of the
biggest science festival in the world.

Joseph.
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