THE Prince of Wales was ridiculed by Nobel prize-winning scientists yesterday for raising fears that miniature robots could turn the world into "grey goo". Leading experts, including two of Britain's Nobel laureates, accused the Prince of ignorance and scaremongering after he expressed his concerns about nanotechnology. The emerging science, which involves building tiny machines from atoms and molecules, holds great promise for medicine and electronics, but some environmentalists have suggested it could lead to the creation of uncontrollable, self-replicating "nanobots". The concept, which is dismissed by scientists, features in Prey, a novel by Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park,...
