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Nanotech's health, environment impacts worry scientists
11-25-2007 · EurekAlert!The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report published today (Nov. 25) in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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