Already a science and technology mecca, Boston's population of scientists is about to swell by 15,000 for the 234th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. They will present more than 9,000 reports on new discoveries in medicine, health, environment, energy, food science, nanotechnology and ...

USA Today covers the challenging but environmentally important issue of making batteries: inefficient, nasty things today that need to get a lot better and cheaper. And they will, with nanotech developed by these two MIT professors: [Prof. Angela] Belcher’s virus-assembled batteries are thin, transparent sheets that look like plastic ...

The company mPHASE points out that battery technology advance has been dismal compared to computer chips. Now they’ve used nanotechnology to build a more environmentally-friendly, longer shelf-life battery, and made a two-minute movie, posted on YouTube, to tell us about it. If the link doesn’t work for you, go to YouTube and search ...