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#nanowireporn
A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
Researchers at IBM are farming nanowires, growing wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair like microscopic silicon bonsai trees. This image shows the wires sprouting silicon. More » -
#madmicroscopy
For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules
Scientists have long been able to pelt lots of electrons at atoms to "see" them, but this process did too much damage to be used on molecules. Now, scientists have found a new, less destructive way to visualize whole molecules. More »
