World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave

Privacy's dead but, hey, we've got nanoparticles spinning at 300 billion RPM. So that's cool

The fastest spinning object on Earth - a pair of nanoparticles - can complete over five billion revolutions per second in the laboratory, according to a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology on Monday."