In this rather retiring moving-picture show , issue over the weekend , you’re able to see something human eyes have never stare on before : a 200 - micromillimetre - wide television channel hatchway and closing in a semiconductor unit crystal . This case was captured at CalTech with an ultrafast electron microscope and slowed down considerably for video . In existent life , the television channel would open up and shut in just a few femtoseconds , which are one thousanth of a trillionth of a second . Yeah . Pretty fucking fast . What this mean is that now scientists can make video of nanoscale events , both in size and clock time . Previously , they could only take hush . In the recess of Time[Chemical and Engineering News ]
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