New micropscope can detect individual atoms

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2008) — TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with half‑angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The TEAM Project (TEAM stands for Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope) is led by Berkeley Lab in a collaboration with DOE's Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the Frederick Seitz Materials Laboratory of the University of Illinois, and two private companies specializing in electron microscopy, the FEI Company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and CEOS of Heidelberg, Germany.

Now that TEAM 0.5's basic systems are operational, additional components and facilities are being completed and tuned, including a state-of-the-art control room display that shows the sample under the microscope on a flat panel resembling a wide-screen, high-definition TV. After a long series of rigorous tests and adjustments, TEAM 0.5 will become available to outside users by October, 2008.
More at link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080122154357.htm

[MikeNearMcChord]

1. So it is true, that they can finally determine the size

of an average Freeper's brain!

[Duer 157099]

2. Damn, they look suspiciously similar to pixels...

could it be... ? nah.....

Or could it?

[madrchsod]

3. they can finally measure bush`s brain

and can count and number of angels on the head of a pin...

now if the homeland security will let the foreign scientists into the country....

[BlueJazz]

4. Hallelujah! Your post looks like a picture of Jesus !

[murray hill farm]

5. I think it looks like (in shape)

like one of those typical gray being aliens.....yikes!

[gtar100]

6. This will be a big help for nanotechnology.

Being able to see with such precision I imagine would help increase control and precision over the manipulation of atoms and molecules.