A uranium single molecule magnet
Don’t you just hate it when your computer runs out of space? No matter how big our hard drives, they always seem to fill up, and finding new ways of increasing computer memory space is keeping many scientists around the world busy. Now scientists in England have created a magnet no larger than a molecule which in theory at least COULD increase the amount of space on your average hard drive thousands of times. Hear my report for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio: