Scaled-Down: New Nano Device Can Weigh Single Molecules
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Dieters and exercise buffs might feel better about their progress if they tracked their weight loss in daltons. Even a short jog can help you shed a few septillion daltons, a unit of mass often used in biochemistry that is equivalent to the atomic mass unit. (Of course, no weight-conscious individual would want to know their full weight in this unit--the average American male weighs approximately 5 X 10 28 daltons.) [More]