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PALO ALTO, Calif. and ZURICH, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) Researchers Gerhart Meyer, Leo Gross and Jascha Repp (now at Regensburg University) have won the prestigious Feynman prize given by the Foresight Group, an organization that seeks to advance the study of nanotechnology. The award was bestowed upon the group of researchers for their ground breaking work in producing detailed molecular images and deconstructing chemical bonds on individual atoms. (Logo:...

Storing information in electron wavesStanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world's smallest writing, a distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990.How small is the writing? The letters in the words are assembled from subatomic sized bits as small as 0.3 nanometers, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.The researchers encoded the letters "S" and "U" (as in Stanford University) within the interference patterns...