Thursday, 29. March 2007
Topic: SCIENCE - on March 29, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
Cutting-edge Technology: The World's Smallest Scissors
Scientists in Japan have created what may be the smallest scissors in the world—molecular clippers that are opened and closed with light.
These novel shears could help control genes, proteins and other molecules in the body, researchers said.
The scissors are just three nanometers, or billionths of a meter, long. This makes them more than 100 times smaller than a wavelength of violet light.
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