Boffins build cancer-spotting nanobelts
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In other news: Nanobelts
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Just something to help him keep his pants upizzarina wrote:and here I thought it was something to keep Nano away.
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Or, for our British friends, his trousers. Even nanobelts do nothing to keep one's underwear up.Tyler Morris wrote:Just something to help him keep his pants up
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I am afraid that I don't understand the problem with quasi-one-dimensional.fearfaoin wrote:OK, now that I've actually read the article:How the heck is something supposed to be quasi-one-dimensional?the article in question wrote:The detectors are based on a new kind of quasi-one dimensional nano material
I was pretty sure dimensionality was measured on an integer scale...
I think that they mean quite a bit thinner that pond scum!
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Maybe it's all in how you wear your nanobelt, Izz? But I would have thought that a nanobelt was something more like those power cuffs that that one superheoess with the leotard, skimpy skirt, All-Star Wrestling belt, floridly curly black hair and B-movie "tiara" used to deflect bullets with.izzarina wrote:Stupid thing...and here I paid a fortune for it.Nanohedron wrote:as you can see, I'm BAAAAACK. Ha.
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Mightn't something like a string of electrons fit the bill?fearfaoin wrote:I'm a pragmatist. If it's "almost one-dimensional, but not quite", then it's bloody two-dimensional.Denny wrote:I am afraid that I don't understand the problem with quasi-one-dimensional.
Point taken.Furthermore, Denny wrote:I think that they mean quite a bit thinner that pond scum!