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Scientists measure atomic nudge

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At 174 trillionths of a trillionth of a newton, new 'yoctoforce' is smallest yet measured.

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  1. Biercuk, M. J., Uys, H., Britton, J. W., VanDevender, A. P. & Bollingerz, J. J. Preprint available at arxiv.org/abs/1004.0780v2 (2010).

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