Skyehaven's Cool Thing of the Day » photo of a molecule http://www.skyehaven.net/blog Just a little something that might help to satisfy a 'satiable curiosity. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:13:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The beauty of nature http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/2009/08/30/the-beauty-of-nature/ http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/2009/08/30/the-beauty-of-nature/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:25:21 +0000 Skyehaven http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/?p=370 Some scientists from IBM have imaged a part of nature that none of us have ever seen before: a single molecule. It’s not just the simple beauty that arrested me, though. It’s the fact that we’ve managed to figure out a way to image something that’s one million times smaller than a grain of sand. And that, in order to do it, they had to replace the tip of their instrument with one molecule of carbon monoxide.

That’s right. To get a picture of a single molecule, scientists had to make an instrument just one molecule wide to measure it. Um…wow?

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