Special Reports

Some believe nanotechnology poses a serious health threat - New Scientist asks Eric Drexler if they are right

How do you power a horde of tiny machines no bigger than a grain of rice? Justin Mullins meets the engineers who are turning to the nuclear option

Move over silicon, there's a new chip in town. And it will help nanotechnologists shrink a lab to the size of a fingernail, says Bruce Schechter

When the footfall of a single electron sets your circuit jumping, you know something strange is going on. Adrian Cho watches a bouncing buckyball kick off a new era in electronics

Whatever happened to nanotubes, the hollow threads of carbon that were going to change the world? Well, they're everywhere, says Valerie Jamieson. Haven't you noticed?

With a fleet of hairy, miniature ears floating around in your body, doctors could listen out for the ominous sounds of disease. Bennett Daviss pricks up his ears

A strange discovery could spark a nanotechnology revolution, bringing perfect lenses, rapid medical tests and superfast computers. Bruce Schechter welcomes the dawn of plasmonics

It's the smallest train in the world, but it's no toy. The nano express could take us closer to the dream of incredibly tiny robots that build themselves. Jonathan Knight leaps aboard

Researchers have come up with an ingenious trick to create a nanosized chemistry kit

A few billion years of evolution are not enough. Human ingenuity can improve on the molecular machinery that runs our bodies, according to a growing band of nano-engineers -and they're delivering the devices to prove it. Welcome to the world of nanomedicine