perldiver

Two things that science has proven: 

1. A spork is the perfect device for gouging out your own eyeballs after reading phenomenally wrong science; and,
   
2. Journalists don't know squat about science, so they tend to write stuff that is phenomenally wrong about it.

The proof of item #2 may be found here: http://tinyurl.com/3xkgqf ; it's an article about a newly-created nanomachine that sorts molecules. I was especially taken by this quote:

[Professor Leigh's new] mechanism traps molecular-sized particles as they move. As Maxwell had predicted long ago, it does not need energy because it is powered by light.

Aaaarrrrrggghhhh!! 

1. Maxwell's Demon was a thought experiment, not a conception of a potentially real device;
2. Maxwell's Demon was not "powered by light", it was a demon!  See, it even says it in the name:  Maxwell's Demon;
3. "It [meaning the newly-created nanomachine] does not need energy"--ok, that's worthy of being shot right there, but when you then immediately followed it with "...because it is powered by..." it's just a What the hell were you thinking? moment.

Pardon me while I go rummage in the flatware drawer.