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  • Who: Scientists at IBM

  • What: Smallest 3D map of the Earth

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Scientists at IBM have created an accurate 3D map of the Earth that is so small that one-thousand of them could fit on one grain of salt. Patterns of the Earth’s continents were created using an incredibly sharp silicon knife to carve features as small as 15 nanometres on a polymer substrate measuring only 22 by 11 micrometres.

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