As scientists debate the risks of nanotech, Philip Ball warns that the major impacts of emerging technologies have rarely been spotted in advance.

In today’s issue of Nature, an international team of scientists presents a five-point scheme for “the safe handling of nanotechnology”. “If the global research community can rise to the challenges we have set,” they say, “then we can surely look forward to the advent of safe nanotechnologies.”

Read the story here.

As scientists debate the risks of nanotech, Philip Ball warns that the major impacts of emerging technologies have rarely been spotted in advance.

In today’s issue of Nature, an international team of scientists presents a five-point scheme for “the safe handling of nanotechnology”. “If the global research community can rise to the challenges we have set,” they say, “then we can surely look forward to the advent of safe nanotechnologies.”

Read the story here.