Sweet: using a sugar solution, Gary Zabow transferred gold letters onto a human hair. The result is shown in false colour in this black and white microscope image. (Courtesy: G Zabow/NIST)
Refined sugar may be bad for our teeth and waistlines, but a researcher at NIST in the US has used t
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