Tiny science tests Russia's hi-tech ambitions

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This April 2007 photo shows Mikhail Kovalchuk (R) director of Kurchatov Institute Nuclear Research Center talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin (2L) during a visit to the Cinchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology Center in Moscow. Scientists acr ...
This April 2007 photo shows Mikhail Kovalchuk (R), director of Kurchatov Institute Nuclear Research Center, talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin (2L) during a visit to the Cinchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology Center in Moscow. Scientists across Russia are setting their minds to new inventions to net some of the billions of state dollars being poured into the field of nanotechnology.

In the world's largest country, tiny objects measured in billionths of a metre are the future of the economy -- or so the government claims.


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