That clever chappy Professor Lukas Novotny has just performed the "highest resolution optical spectroscopic measurement ever made", Aunty   reports. The picture above is from a detail of carbon nanotubes (they're pretty tiny) and the technique can resolve down to 25 nanometres. That's billionths of a metre people - we're talking small here - but I bet they'll still not be able to find a set of lost car keys without spending hours of fruitless searching first. DP

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