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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. What has this got to do... by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...with my homies in the #gnaa?

    Darl McBride 0wnz j00r OS.

  2. This is a crying shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Edward Teller's death was ignored for stories like this?

    Tell me again why we're supposed to subscribe?