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The rate at which video cameras are being miniaturised means that they, too, may soon be light enough for insects to carry.
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North Korea said on Tuesday that it had carried out an underground nuclear test, which it claimed involved a miniaturised but more powerful device.
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It is packed with scientific instruments such as a miniaturised camera, an infra-red spectrometer and sensors to measure solar wind and other electrical currents.
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"If the North produces miniaturised weapons that can be used as warheads on missiles, it would really pose a threat, " Mr Lee told Chosun Ilbo.
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They have taken an existing technique called stereolithography, and miniaturised it.
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Lead author Jonathan Dyhr from University of Washington explained that - in terms of insect models - moths provided a particularly interesting basis for miniaturised robots.
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North Korea claimed that a "miniaturised" device had been tested, increasing fears that Pyongyang had moved closer to building a warhead small enough to arm a missile.
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State-run KCNA news agency said the test was "carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner using a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously".
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Paper transistors, and circuits based on them, are not, it must be said, going to replace silicon chips as the microprocessors in computers any time soon if only because they are nowhere near as miniaturised.
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It is less clear whether Iran is capable of putting a miniaturised warhead on one of its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, which have a range of 1, 200 miles (1, 900 km), but the IAEA suggests it has conducted experiments to that end.
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