The Hindustan Times has gone nano crazy with a whole slew or articles on nanotechnology culled from everyone and everywhere. At paragraph two of the introduction we read To put it simply, nanotechnology is the ability to build objects one atom at a time. For this we would need atomic-scale tools about one nanometre big, which is one-billionth of a metre, only 10 atoms long.
For anyone looking for an case study in sloppy journalism this is it.
Let’s rephrase that. The Hindustan Times has gone…