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Carbon nanotubes remain attached to materials for years while titanium dioxide and nanozinc are rapidly washed out of cosmetics and accumulate in the ground. Researchers... More

Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed nanoparticles that can deliver antiobesity drugs directly to fat tissue. Overweight mice treated with these... More

Zink oxide has been approved by the EU for its use in... More

Scientists are working diligently now to prepare for the expected increase in global population — and therefore an increased need for food production— in the... More

NGOs, consumer groups and research organisations are disappointed with the European Commission’s continuing failure to propose adequate measures for the collection and publication of information... More

The publishing of the inventory of nanomaterials for cosmetics from the European Union has been delayed but should finally occur in the middle of this... More

Empa scientists have developed a technique that can repair old, cracked asphalt. They got their inspiration from a method used in cancer treatment, using iron... More

The new interactive tool on the safe handling of nanomaterials in production and processing is now publicly available in English for free at http://nano.dguv.de/nanorama/bgrci2/en/.... More