Scientists Create World's Smallest Bowl of "Ramen"

Ok, I am of the biggest fans of ramen noodles in the world, so when my wife saw this story she just had to send it to me. Japanese scientists have created what they are calling the world's smallest noodle bowl, complete with a microscopic string of inedible "noodles" using nanotube technology. Here's the story from Yahoo!News:

Japanese scientists create microscopic noodle bowl


TOKYO - Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small it can be seen only through a microscope.

Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch in a project aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology.

The Japanese-style ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes, Nakao said.

Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about one-ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair.

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