The delightful video below, A Boy And His Atom, is considered the world's smallest stop-motion film. Back in 2013, IBM researchers created the film as a demonstration of a scanning tunneling microscope's capability as a basic tool for nanotechnology, a "bottom-up" approach to engineering in which individual atoms or molecule…
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