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Nanothermometer Withstands Heat

Posted by timothy on from the shouldn't-they-all dept.

StyleChief writes "Technology Review reports that researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have fashioned nano thermometers from a magnesium oxide nanotube filled with liquid gallium. The tiny thermometers are between 20 and 60 nanometers thick, or about one hundredth the diameter of a red blood cell."

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  1. Interesting by Lendrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nanothermometer Withstands Heat

    But more importantly, does it measure heat?

  2. Worlds Smallest Rectal Thermometer by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now we will know if that mosquito has a fever or not.... It does! Well, then pass the quinine.

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    1. Re:Worlds Smallest Rectal Thermometer by jazman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Better still can we detect if the red blood cell is actually inside a mosquito (as distinct from inside a human), then attach the thermometer to a nano-thermonuclear device, and blow the little bastard sky high? They'll either evolve the ability not to bite humans or explode themselves out of existence.