World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule

[DavidDvorkin]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/tu-wse090111.php

Bring on those engines of creation!

[NCarolinawoman]

1. It's nice to see a good number of women worked on this project.

That little molecule had little "arms" and that teeny tiny motor spins around? I have to say this: That little molecule motor sounds kind of "CUTE".
;)

[The Doctor.]

8. Yes. But why should that be significant?

Would it be less 'cute' if the project were pursued more by men?

Personally, I think that gender should be irrelevant when it comes to, well... virtually anything. Some think that gender ascribes character or ability. I do not.

So I guess I'm just curious. Would the project have been different were it pursued entirely by men?

[tridim]

2. Get back to me when they make a motor out of a single particle

I have a feeling evolution is going places we can't even dream about.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. History books written in the next century

will spent a lot of words on the major events of our time, and those won't be the events we would now point to. This might be one they'll be writing about.

[undeterred]

4. Amazing and frightening too.

[gristy]

5. That's some interesting work, but...

sounds like someone changed the definition of "motor".

[Lint Head]

6. But.. we won't fit into the tiny cars.

[Kaleko]

9. LOL, that totally cracked me up.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Science! Technology! BOO! HISS!