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Small talk

Nature volume 442, pages 994–995 (2006)Cite this article

Is rebranding research as 'nanoscience' just jumping on the bandwagon? A recent conference in Basel proves that the name does at least attract researchers from different disciplines to mingle for mutual inspiration.

While most of Switzerland was caught up in the festivities on 1 August that commemorate the birth of the nation, 1,400 scientists gathered in Basel at ICN+T 2006Footnote 1 to discuss the latest developments in nanoscience and technology. They were also there to celebrate a pivotal event in the history of Swiss science: the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) at the IBM labs in Zurich more than 25 years ago.

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  1. *International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, Basel, Switzerland, 31 July–4 August 2006; http://www.icnt2006.ch

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