Scientists reduce Bible to a speck

SCIENTISTS in Israel have used a particle beam to etch the entire text of the Jewish Bible on a chip less than half the size of a sugar grain.

The nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa said the text measured less than 0.5 sq mm.

They chose the Jewish Bible to highlight how vast quantities of information could be stored in tiny spaces, the Associated Press reported.

"It took us about an hour to etch the 300,000 words of the Bible onto a tiny silicon surface,'' said Ohad Zohar, the university's scientific adviser for educational programs.

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