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Nanotechnology

This is something to do with the ability to manipulate matter at scales of a nanometre (a billionth of a metre). But it’s not new and it is not very clever, either. Public discussion of nanotechnology dates back to 1959, when the physicist Richard Feynman delivered a historic lecture on atomic-scale technologies. In the past decade or two, crazed scientists rebranded chemistry as nanotechnology to make it sexier and more likely to attract funds. The problem is that it ...

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