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The article features the invention of nanoradio in Berkeley, California. It was Alex Zettl, a physicist at the University of California, and colleagues wherein they invented a nanoscale radio in which the key circuitry consists of a single carbon nanotube. The invention is advantageous to the wireless industry such as cell phones to environmental sensors, because its smaller electronic components would reduce power consumption and extend battery life. It could also steer wireless communications into entirely new realms including tiny devices that navigate the bloodstream to release drugs on command.

The article reports on a study on a technique for adding single atoms to Buckyball (C-60 Fullerene) carbon molecules. The potential for molecular computing has advanced a significant step with the refinement of the technique. A scientist from University of California in Berkeley used a scanning tunneling microscope to precisely tailor the electronic properties of a single molecule by adding potassium atoms.