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Feb 5, 2025 Here’s what happens when you just keep zooming in. Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.

A big thank you to Magnus Garbrecht from the University of Sydney for showing us around the lab and for his feedback on the script.

Special thanks to Quentin Ramasse for his expertise on the video.

▀▀▀ 0:00 Why is it hard to see atoms? 2:12 How does an electron microscope work? 4:09 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) 5:11 Spherical Aberration 8:55 Field Ion Microscope 11:05 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) 13:24 Probe microscopes 14:02 An unlikely solution 18:08 Seeing atoms

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References: Busch, H. (1926). Berechnung der Bahn von Kathodenstrahlen im axialsymmetrischen elektromagnetischen Felde. Annalen Der Physik - https://ve42.co/Busch1926 Ruska, E. (1986). The development of the electron microscope and of e