May 30th, 2008 · Japanese scientists have made it more difficult to watch what you eat. They created a ramen bowl so small, it can only be seen with a microscope. The engineers carved the bowl out of microscopic nanotubes, and put a microscopic serving of noodles inside.
May 23rd, 2008 · Tiny tubes made of carbon atoms have been among the main ingredients of the nanotech revolution. But researchers have found that when injected into mice, nanotubes could behave in a way similar to the way asbestos fibers behave, forming lesions that lead to cancer.
May 21st, 2008 · Tiny tubes made of carbon atoms have promised to revolutionize industry. But a new study in mice suggests that one kind of nanotube produces biological changes like those caused by asbestos.
Nov 3rd, 2007 · Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a radio one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. The nanotube radio, 100 billion times smaller than the first commercial radios, requires only a battery and earphones to tune in to a station.