Current tech depends on hard disk drives that use up to 100,000 atoms to store one bit of data, according to IBM. Future applications of this discovery could allow people to store 1,000 times more ...

Particles popping in and out of existence are the norm here. STMs can also relocate atoms, as IBM demonstrated with 35 xenon atoms In fact, at the tiny scales we’re working at, particles can ...

Twenty years after spelling out IBM with atoms, the scanning tunnelling microscope is still going strong. Until then the STM had been used to image surfaces, and atoms and molecules on surfaces ...

Now, researchers at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory and Utrecht ... imaging capabilities of its elder sibling by resolving the atoms within a molecule adsorbed on a surface (Science 325, 1110 ...