Fun with single atoms

IBM Almaden research has produced "A Boy and His Atom", a stop-motion movie where the frames are scanning tunneling microscope images of carbon monoxide molecules on the Cu(111) surface.  Here is the "Making of..." movie as well.  Fun stuff.  I was particularly amused by Andreas Heinrich's comment that "if I can get a thousand kids to join science rather than go into law school, I'd be super happy."  Amen :-)