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Published online 19 December 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051219-2

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Robotic heroics at radiation lab

'Mighty Mouse' machine stages rescue at US government facility.

It sounds like something you might pitch to a Hollywood studio. A high-security US radiation lab is thrown into turmoil when a cylinder spewing out deadly radiation gets trapped in its network of delivery tubes.

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