IBM made the world’s smallest movie by using a pair of electron scanning microscopes to move a series of atoms to create a stop motion effect.
Follow this link to see how they made the movie. It’s truly astonishing.
The end result is below. Hard to wrap my head around the fact that they were able to move individual atoms from one well defined position to another. Science!
Amusingly, this is a repost; Peter Cohen posted about this on May ’13. Still awesome to revisit, though.
Good catch, Nick. Didn’t think to search for it. Still, really amazing to me.
Should really be titled “A Boy and His Molecule” but I guess that’s not as catchy.