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Which machine can create images of atoms?

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Answer: Scanning Tunneling Microscope

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The answer is, of course, the greatest Star Trek fan art imaginable: images literally built out of individual atoms. The images are the work of IBM scientists who created the unique artwork with a two-ton machine called the Scanning Tunneling Microscope that moves single atoms across a tiny piece of copper.

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