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The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Anders Bylund	Ride the Space Elevator to Riches! Harris & Harris and other nanotech specialists could ride their own space elevator in the next couple of years.
Entrepreneur June 2007 Kristin Ohlson	Space Odyssey The hope of easy access to space sparks sky-high innovation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 Courtney E. Howard	LaserMotive Wins NASA's Centennial Challenges Program with Wireless Energy Beaming Technology LaserMotive engineers enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable via wireless power transmission, technology that could help power a "space elevator" in the future
Inc. June 2004 Jim Melloan	Going Up? The private space industry is expected to grow by $7.7 billion in 2004. But many of the fledgling ventures seem extremely risky. Like, say, the company that wants to build an elevator to the stars.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2005 Carl Wherrett	Nanomix With a Nano First A commercial launch brings nanotechnology one step closer to the mainstream in a market that leaves plenty of room for Nanomix and its backers, like Harris & Harris, to reap handsome rewards.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2005 Tim Beyers	Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race?
AskMen.com	The Space Elevator Tryouts Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2005 Carl Wherrett	The Next Tech Revolution At the smallest scale known to man lies the future of civilization. But what of investors? Should our portfolios take notice of this emerging, but as yet commercially unproven, technology?
Scientific American February 6, 2006 Patrick DiJusto	Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market?
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	The Building of a Market Thank you for flying, nano enthusiasts. Now hold on. From an investment perspective, the report of shoddy deliveries reminds us that nanofakers are still out there, making promises.
Wired April 2003 Kevin Kelleher	Starlight Express Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up.
Entrepreneur September 2006 Steve Cooper	Eye on the Prize Are you trying to develop the next big thing? Enlist help from bright minds outside your company by throwing in a prize.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Bradley Carl Edwards	A Hoist to the Heavens A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one? Many aspects are already being imagined and considered by forward-thinking engineers.
PC Magazine March 15, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n6 LiftPort Group has stood a space elevator cable one mile into the air, held aloft by a weather balloon, and robots have successfully climbed up and down.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Jennifer Bogo	X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Nanotech and NASA NASA is stepping up its attention to manipulating atoms and designing molecule-size machines.
The Motley Fool April 30, 2004 Mark Chapman	Nano or Bust It has been estimated that nearly 50% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average companies either produce or are working on nano-related products. So how can investors profit from nanotechnology?
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich	TINY Investment Inches Closer to Payoff Carbon nanotubes move into semiconductor production fabs. Until more details are forthcoming, investors are cautioned against getting too excited.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Otis Port	Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver
The Motley Fool August 23, 2005 Jack Uldrich	Invest With the CIA Venture capital firm Harris & Harris has stakes in nanotechnology, one tool the government is using to protect us. Is it time to invest?
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Google X Confirms The Rumors: It Really Did Try To Design A Space Elevator Rich DeVaul, head of Google X's Rapid Evaluation team, has confirmed for the first time ever that Google's super hush-hush R&D lab actually tried to design one.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004	Nano Test Tubes Fabricated Researchers have found a way to make minuscule test tubes from carbon and silica nanotubes.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Profiting From Nanotechnology Can you profit from this technology? An overview of what the science is and where opportunity may lie for investors.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Tim Beyers	To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012.
Chemistry World November 22, 2011 Anthony King	Nasa turns to the dark side with new material NASA scientists have embraced the dark side, creating the blackest material ever. It absorbs almost all light across multiple wavelengths and promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Lemons Ripen Faster Than Plums A venture capitalist in the nano sector is finding some nice pickings. However, valuing Harris is not an easy task, as the metrics of sales and profits are not relevant to a publicly traded VC company.
Wired September 13, 2007 Spencer Reiss	Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2006 Tim Beyers	Prepare for Another Moon Shot NASA says we'll establish a permanent moon base by 2024. How will investors benefit?
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Intel's Baby Steps Intel extends its deal with the young nanotech player Nanosys. This is obviously good news for both Nanosys and Harris & Harris investors, because it suggests that the companies could become legitimate players in NAND.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Nano's Holiday Price Pop Who can possibly know why the prices of several prominent, publicly traded nano companies spiked by huge margins last Monday? The annual nano buying craze is back.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2004 Wherrett & Yelovich	Dynamite in Small Packages There's plenty of action -- and volatility -- in the nanotech sector. Should investors patiently sit on the sidelines?
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Nanotubes Lengthen to Centimeters Researchers have found a way to grow very long carbon nanotubes. One long-range possibility is using ultralong carbon nanotubes fibers to make an elevator to low Earth orbit.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts.
Wired December 2004	After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Otis Port	Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Dan Bloom	Ready for Some Carbon Nanotubing? Carbon nanotubes are going to show up in all sorts of high tech devices. Be ready for them.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2005 Jack Uldrich	A TINY Alternative in Nanotech Arrowhead Research offers individual investors who are looking to profit from nanotechnology an alternative to Harris & Harris.