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I read the lead in the same way. I thought,"oh, haha, silly innumerate journalists, they must have meant tenths of nanometers, and they even got that wrong!" and I felt the superiority that comes from catching someone in a factual error.

However, it's the imaging mechanism that produced a correspondingly large picture of an atom of hydrogen.

So then I felt normal again, perhaps a little more ashamed than when I started reading the article.



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