In 1990, physicist Donald Eigler used a scanning tunneling microscope to take 35 individual xenon atoms and arrange them to spell the name of his company, IBM. The world’s tiniest corporate logo made ...

Nanotechnology is being reimagined as a solution to agriculture's most urgent challenges. (Nanowerk News) Feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 demands a radical rethink of how we grow food.

Working at levels as small as a billionth of a metre, researchers on an IAEA project have studied radiation’s effect on nano-architectures – the design and building of nano structures – and identified ...