May 1, 2013

The World’s Smallest Movie Produced by IBM

The nano-cinematographers (that’s right, we just made up that word) used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of molecules and make a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.

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Nanophysicists have the most fun, or at least some IBM researchers do. The nanocinematographers (that’s right, we just made up that word) used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of molecules and make a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times.

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