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IBM creates a stop motion animation using individual atoms
Today, a team of IBM scientists are bypassing the big screen to unveil what they call the “world’s smallest movie.” This atomic motion picture was created with the help of a two-ton IBM-made microscope that operates at a bone-chilling negative 268 degrees Celsius. This hardware was used to control a probe that pulled and arranged atoms for stop-motion shots used in the 242-frame film.
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posted 01 May, 2013
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posted 06 July, 2012
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TedEd video of the day: Just how small are atoms?
TL;DR: Really, really fucking small.
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posted 27 April, 2012
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Scientists capture first-ever image of atoms moving inside a molecule
Scientists have mapped the probable paths of electrons, have manipulated individual atoms to make nano-structures, but until now, no one has actually seen atoms vibrating their little butts off inside a molecule.
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posted 09 March, 2012
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IBM fits a bit of data on just twelve atoms
A couple weeks ago, we told you about how single-atom thick wires could overcome the resistance bottleneck so that transistors can keep getting smaller and smaller, and now IBM keeps things on itty bitty scale by managing to pack a single bit of data on just twelve atoms.
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posted 15 January, 2012
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Brian Cox demonstrates to Simon Pegg why atoms are mostly empty space
The short answer is “Because they are”, but if you actually want to learn something about standing waves and atoms and the stuff matter is made of, just watch the damn video.
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posted 30 December, 2011
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The world gets its first glimpse at electron orbitals
Microscopes have gotten really good over the years. How good? Just two years ago, IBM was showing off pictures of individual atoms and now we’ve got our first look at electron orbitals. Damn, they really do look just like the drawings of electron orbitals you probably had to do in high school chemistry.
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posted 29 August, 2011
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Electrons are near-perfect spheres
There are plenty of things in nature that are spherical, but very few perfect spheres. As it turns out however, if you were wondering, that electrons are perfect spheres. Okay, so they’re like 99.9999% spherical, but to you and I that’s a perfect sphere. Scientists are just so fucking picky about that shit.
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posted 27 May, 2011
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WKRP Cincinnati explains atoms with street gangs
From the show WKRP Cincinnati, atomic structure is explained using a street gang analogy. So simple, any cat could dig it.
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posted 21 May, 2011
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Encoding data on electron spin could double memory capacity
Currently, information is stored in a “computer” with “binary”… 1s and 0s tastefully arranged to give the illusion of data. Electrons by their very nature are also binary, either spinning one way or the other. Electrons are also really, really, really tiny, and using their spin to encode information can double memory usage and conserve power.
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posted 25 August, 2010
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For the first time, scientists are able to watch electrons move in real time
Fucking electrons are dodgy little things, zipping about in their little clouds of probability, not giving a crap about you, but so essential to matter. Until now, we haven’t been able to see the damn specks. But this is the future, so now we can actually watch them oscillate thanks to scientists in Germany and the US.
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posted 06 August, 2010
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Apparently protons are smaller than previously thought. Well that fucks some things up.
Protons are the building blocks of atoms and their size plays an absolutely crucial role in the 60 year old theory of quantum electrodynamics, which is the cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics. Now it turns out the damn things are smaller than we thought. Oops.
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posted 09 July, 2010
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