thedailywhat: World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism. The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair. Check out the making of here. [via.]

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World’s Smallest Thing of the Day: Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory, where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism.

The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across — 1/5th the width of a human hair.

Check out the making of here.

[via.]