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 ...

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 ...

Physicists at England's Loughborough University employed the use of nanotechnology to create what they are touting is "the world's smallest violin,” which is no bigger than a speck of dust and ...

It looks like a joke, and in a way, it is. The sound of the “world’s smallest violin” has long been a punchline for mock sympathy.