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Countries around the world are fighting for a piece of the nanotech pie. Russia could sell as much as $29 billion of nanotech products by 2015, says the chief of a Russian nanotechnology firm. As we head into the next decade, where do you think the center of the nanotechnology market will be?

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Mice exposed to drinking water contaminated withtitanium dioxide nanoparticles developed inflammation and DNA damage, report UCLA researchers. Meanwhile, nanoparticles are getting into the environment when people wash off or discard nanotech-enabled products such as makeup, sunscreen, and paint. What does that mean for us top-of-the-foodchain types? Are we in danger?

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MRI studies suggest that the tendency to give in to temptation is a matter of hard-wiring rather than choice. Do you believe it or is that just an easy out? ("Biology made me do it, your honor.")

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The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) was designed to help save jobs and spur the economy. Now, $377 million of that money is being funneled into research and development, much of it to university and government labs. Do you think that will create jobs? Do you think that's how the ARRA money was intended to be used?

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New research shows nanotechnology can help remediate contaminated sites and yet other research points to nanotech as the hazard. Are we turning our backs on an environmental solution or risking merely swapping one type of contamination for another?

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