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Nanocar Wins Top Science Award 175

Lucas123 writes "A researcher who built a car slightly larger than a strand of DNA won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology. James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice Univ. built a car only 4 nanometers in width in order to demonstrate that nanovehicles could be controlled enough to deliver payloads to build larger objects, such as memory chips and, someday, even buildings, like a self-assembling machine. Tour and a team of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers constructed a car with chassis, working suspension, wheels and a motor. 'You shine light on it and the motor spins in one direction and pushes the car like a paddle wheel on the surface,' Tour said. The team also built a truck that can carry a payload."
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Comment Folks Folks Folks! Learn folksinging or somethin' (Score 1) 305

I'd like to just point out that the whole issue - the RIAA, the intellectual property jazz, and whatnot - is nearly moot.
It's not illegal (yet!) to learn to SING. Go find
an old guitar and teach yourself some chords!
Why does everybody assume music has to be made by mere paid troubadors?!

Okay, I'm semi serious. I'm a brass player :-/

Cheers!

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