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Scientists have used high-tech “tweezers” to build a pile of no more than 10 atoms on a crystal, an ability that they say may lead to faster computers and physical manipulation of molecules. The atoms were moved by using an electronic microscope that gives atom-by-atom images of a surface, the researchers report in today’s issue of the British journal Nature.
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