The world’s fastest microscope makes its debut
The microscope can snap images every few hundred quintillionths of a second
![This illustration of a sheet of graphene shows a grid of connected atoms with a red streak going diagonally across it.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/082024_SW_fast-mircoscopy_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
A new type of microscope used a laser and an electron beam to snap images of electrons moving within a sheet of graphene (illustrated) at a record pace of one every 625 attoseconds.
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