JUSTINE MURPHY, SENIOR EDITOR, [email protected]Queen Elizabeth II has owned at least 30 Pembroke Welsh corgi dogs in her lifetime, ever since her father, King George VI, brought home Dookie when she was a child. So when scientists at the University of Nottingham — who hold the world record for writing the smallest version of the periodic table on a human hair — wanted to demonstrate technology at the new Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (NMRC) earlier this year, they didn’t use just any hair … they chose a corgi hair. Courtesy of the University of Nottingham. 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