WaterLights is located west of 288 and south of Beltway 8. The $700 million, 1.9 million square foot mix-used development is expected to open in September 2009, according to Goswick.

A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing.

Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small.

According to information released by the university, the nanotubes are carbon-based tubes that have been covered in DNA so that they can be injected into healthy tissue. The tubes can detect chemotherapy agents as well as toxins in the body.

We are also intensely involved in pioneering climate change research and other high-level research in fields ranging from energy to nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, linguistics, computer science, language acquisition and national security.

iPhone is rumoured to be releasing an iPhone Nano, made from new materials created by nanotechnology.

Biotechnology is the integration of engineering and technology to the life sciences.

Researchers in Scotland have been given nearly half a million pounds to try to improve digital camera images.

Futurists predict trends to come

Researchers and manufacturers routinely use intense, focused beams of ions to carve nanometer-sized features into a wide variety of targets.

Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.