Some ideas, including some quirky ones, came from the use of nanotechnology - the science of building new materials at the atomic or molecular scale.
一些创意，其中包括一些古怪的，则使用纳米技术-在原子或分子尺度范围内制造新材料的科学。
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Scientists lobbed a bombshell into the world of sub-atomic theory on Wednesday by reporting that a primary building block of the visible Universe, the proton, is smaller than previously thought.
科学家们周三向亚原子理论的世界抛了颗重磅炸弹：可见世界的一块基石——质子——比先前人们认为得要小。
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Beginning in the 1960s, physicists were using tools adapted from the semiconductor industry to create new materials from scratch, building them up layer-by-layer at the atomic scale.