So if I can discover the "next" element and name it and then make nano tubes I can have a VULVA! I'll be in the lab...

Given the presence of CuNTs, shouldn't this be labled appropriately to protect people from the evil, humourless office-web-filter?

I choose Paris cos she is a ...

Is a right Copper Nano Tube!

Especially the supplementary information talking about Open and Closed CuNTs. Oh dear...

If heterojunctions are on there, is a homojunction Kings Cross?

Now I can say to my soon to be old boss that I always considered them a copper nanotube.

Do you use Beryllium nanotubes to go around corners?

Camping with Tellurium nanotubes?

Does an abundance of radium nanotubes cause some people to go off on one in forums?

Just make sure you don't make any from calcium...

All this is in a bid to be allowed to don my coat and leave the premises.

Mind you, keep at it long enough and my employers may just make my wish come true. Premenantly.

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person who feels that they work with BiNT's on a regular basis

Bismuth nanotube ?

This is not original work. The Hugh Heffner Institute has already published several articles showing advanced copper nanotubes that are are also PlutoniumBeryllium-free.

in Australia was called Curtin University of Technology (CUT). Rumour always was that it was originally intended to be called Curtin University of New Technology but for some reason the New was dropped.

I suppose a calling someone a copper nanotube sounds better than callling them a James Blunt... I think it sounds Pete Tong!

To be heard chanted on the terraces the length and breadth of the country on Saturday afternoon:

"All coppers are nanotubes. All coppers are nanotubes."

(Sadly, I cannot imagine Reg reader chanting it, nor one copper understanding it!)

A significant portion of the human population have had these for centuries. About 0.7 billion have them right now! And that is only the Chinese version! ;-P

...feel a bit sorry for Ruthenium Nanotubes. They seem so much smaller and weedier than all the others.

Sorry, sorry, I know. That joke was a bit Protactinium Nanotubes.

OK. Got coat. Or should that be Cobalt-Astatine?

Yes, yes, I'm going.

you very well might need one of these:

Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscope - (anacronym left to the reader)

The original Paper - (of the same name)

Journal of Chemical Physics, 1972 Val 56, Number 4, page 1776

cunning stunt ! have those sinoscientists managed to pull off, so amazing .

You can't have forgotten about the Sheffield Hallam Institute of Technology??

Doesn't need an acronym like that. It is synonymous with the word. The acronym would be redundant.

I wonder if these tubes went into this radio product (NSFW)

http://www.qx100.com/cp/show_175.html

We have a new vulture unit of measurement.

...please! I'll wager that the title of The Register's award and the attention devoted to a copper-based expletive/body part pun are both silly and offensive to lots of readers.

When The Register pulls its punches, it recalls Punch (of blessed memory). When it doesn't, it smacks of losers like Beavis and Butthead sniggering "He said ... heh-heh heh-heh heh-heh".

Please note that B&B were themselves the real object of satire, much in the tradition of German Lausbuben (rascals) like Max and Moritz, and Struwelpeter.

Why would The Register voluntarily turn itself into a similar object of derision?