Scientists wired about new process

In the hand of University of Illinois Professor Min-Feng Yu is a minuscule device with a rod, or spindle, sticking out the end that's barely as long as one of Yu's fingernails.

Around the spindle, Yu and his students have wrapped a couple feet of wire, but good luck getting a glimpse of it.

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