Related links
Links to key websites that focus on issues and concerns about nanoscience.
Organisations and initiatives
Demos – Building everyday democracy
An independent think-tank advocating more openness and dialogue between scientists, policy makers and the public.
Greenpeace
An independent non-profit global campaigning organisation.
Nanoscience at Cambridge
Includes links to the Nanoscience Centre at University of Cambridge and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Nanotec.
The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN)
A nanotechnology information provider working closely with governments, universities, researchers and companies worldwide on developing and promoting all aspects of nanotechnology.
The Royal Society
The UK's national academy of science - an independent charitable body at the cutting edge of scientific progress, which influences science policy and debates scientific issues with the public.
The Science Museum
Online exhibition on nanotechnology: small science, big deal.
General articles and links
Nanotechnology: The Material Word (BBC Radio 4 Online, 19 June 2003)
Nano test tubes: The Material World (BBC Radio 4 Online, 2 September 2004)
Public debate needs to move upstream (Demos press release, 1 September 2004)
Small wonders (Economist.com 29 December 2004)
The triumph of technology, Reith lectures 2005 (BBC Radio 4 Online, April-May 2005)
What is Nanotechnology? (Nanotechnology Online Journal 14, January 2003)
News stories
A very, very small step to beating the Big C (The Times Online, 29 April 2004)
Citizens' jury to tackle nanotech (BBC News Online, 23 May 2005)
How gold dust and DNA can fight disease (Telegraph Online, 12 September 2004)
Myths and realities of nano futures (BBC News Online, 28 July 2004)
Nanotechnology kills cancer cells (BBC News Online, 2 August 2005)
Nanotech promise for global poor (BBC News Online, 11 April 2005)
Nasa to conquer space with swarms of tiny robot pyramids (Guardian Online, 30 March 2005)
Now we're going public (Guardian Online, 19 May 2005)
Only four out of 10 Britons say they are informed about science (Guardian Online, 14 March 2005)
Prince warns of science 'risks' (BBC News Online, 11 July 2004)
'Tighter controls' for tiny science (BBC News Online, 29 July 2004)
Tiny science is lost on UK public (BBC News Online, 15 March 2004)
UK orders another nanotech review (BBC News Online, 25 February 2005)