This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms

All the normal matter in the Universe is made up of teeny tiny building blocks that are far too small to be seen with the naked eye.

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So it's galaxies all the way down?
- And all the way up!
  
  There are organisms for whom our galaxies are seen as cells.
  
  What organisms are those?
- yes
This is just really neat. Keep up the good work, scientists!
One step closer to teleporters
- Screw teleporters, I want replicators
  
  All of the above and holodecks please
  
  Yeah, I suppose replicators are an inevitable punctuated step on the way.
  
  Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.
It's incredible that we can actually 'see' the atomic lattice and it's also pretty wicked that the oxygen atom is more 'fuzzy' because, I think given the explanation on how they imaged this, it's less dense than praseodymium and scandium.
Crazy
how do they achieve higher resolutions than with former electron microscopes.
- They use a technique called ptychography. They explain it a bit more in the article.
  
  The way they describe it in the article is how I understand a electron microscope works
Neat!

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