Science on Instagram: "The famous IBM short film “A Boy and His Atom” (2013). That video was made by moving individual atoms frame by frame using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). Scientists positioned carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface, took a picture, then moved the atoms again to create the next frame. By combining thousands of such frames, they produced the world’s smallest stop-motion movie, showing a stick figure playing, jumping, and dancing. This video is the world’s smal