The technology that lets us look into the incredibly small nano world enables scientists to prove years of scientific discovery and create amazing nano devices.
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Just as the invention of light microscopes revolutionized human understanding of the natural world, modern microscopes that can reveal and alter individual atoms are once again exposing a whole new world—the nano world.

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