alyssatrybus:thedailywhat:World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism. The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair. Check out the making of here. no one told me this was a micrograph! i love it now!! (but im a bit sad they took out the scale bar)
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alyssatrybus:thedailywhat:World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism. The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair. Check out the making of here.

no one told me this was a micrograph! i love it now!! (but im a bit sad they took out the scale bar)

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    i know it’s kinda late but this is just so cool
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    thedailywhat:World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where...
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    fuck yeah physics!
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    aww thats adorable.. and incredibly scary o_o;
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    Materials science FTW!
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    Aww, so sweet. And brilliant.
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    receiver:jessk:thedailywhat:...I thought it was ice cream. :)
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