some "nano-news"
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nanotech-used-2.html Damascus swords -- sharp enough to slice a falling piece of silk in half, strong enough to split stones without dulling -- owe their legendary qualities to carbon nanotubes, says chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Curl . The blades used so-called wootz steel, smelted with a technique developed 2000 years ago in India, where craftsmen added wood and other organic debris to their furnaces. The resulting carbon-laced steel, hard but flexible, was soon celebrated across the ancient world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnet.com/matter-antimatter/8301-13641_1-9849464-44.html And now India proudly presented the spiritual successor to all of these -- the $2,500 Tata Nano , a "people's car" that is widely gushed about, not only for its surprisingly slick design but also for its innovations The Indian Economic Times even proclaims the " coming Nano Age :...