A Boy And His Atom: The Worlds Smallest Movie

You re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records record for the World s Smallest StopMotion Film (see how it was made at The ability to move single atoms the smallest particles of any element in the universe is crucial to IBM s research in the field of atomic memory. But even nanophysicists need to have a little fun. In that spirit, IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on