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Published online 21 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051017-18

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Nanocar takes a test drive

It's the smallest thing on four wheels

The world's smallest toy cars have been set rolling.

They measure just 3 by 4 nanometres: a million of them parked bumper to tail would cover the length of a flea.

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