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Season's Gweetings

netbros — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:05:09 -0800

The World's Smallest Snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair. The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum.

Francium Goes to Hollywood

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:18 -0800

"Welcome to the "Periodic Table of Videos". Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version will have a short video about each one."(YT subscription) (via kottke)

The Universe is Like a Windows Media Player Visualization

tehloki — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:21:48 -0800

The observable universe just got a bit smaller. Johan Mauritsson and his colleagues at Lund University in Sweden have released what appears to be a video of an electron oscillating on a wave of light.