A group of physicists from Loughborough University in the UK has recently turned the phrase “playing the world’s smallest violin” into reality. While the expression often pokes fun at someone who’s ...

British physicists claim they’ve created the “world’s smallest violin” — and, by the looks of it, they could take a bow for their masterpiece invention. The brainy bunch at Loughborough University ...

You may hear references to playing the world's smallest violin when someone is being overly whiny or wallowing in self-pity, and now scientists have turned the joke into an actual microscopic object.

Microscopic image of the world's smallest violin created by Loughborough University physicists, Microscopic chip bearing the image of the world's smallest violin British physicists claim they’ve ...