Why Did Scientists Make an Actual World’s Smallest Violin?

Why Did Scientists Make an Actual World’s Smallest Violin?

Researchers at Loughborough University in the UK just took the classic sarcastic phrase “playing the world’s smallest violin” and made it real. You can’t play actual music on it, and you’ll probably struggle to figure out how to use it to mock someone’s minor whiney grievance, but this 13-micron-wide etching of a violin represents a huge technological breakthrough. Built using a technique called nanolithography, the violin was created through a …