The Swiss Virtual Campus project ”Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory” realises a virtual laboratory for the booming field of Nanoscience. Nanoscience laboratories are expensive and only major companies and organizations sponsored by research programmes can afford their usage. With a concept of distance education, complex and sensible experimental equipment can be shared through the Internet. Three ...

The workshop, organized by the PhD Course in Nanosciences and Advanced Technologies, aims to create a forum on hot topics of current interest Nanoscience Nanotechnology such as Nanomedicine, Biotechnology, Energy-nanotech, Environmental nanoscience, Green nanotechnology, Nanoengineering.

This essay explores what it means to see and how contemporary technology is changing the tools and the methods of the way we perceive. The widespread desire for effective scientific visualization along with increasing sensitivity to popular attention has created a reckless culture of image manipulation. Scientists, illustrators, and artists take broad license in how they manipulate images to th...