Physicists create the world's tiniest magnifying glass to see atomic bonds

The world’s tiniest magnifying glass made with gold nanoparticles is powerful enough to see the individual chemical bonds between atoms, according to research published on Friday. The energy of light can be measured by its wavelength, and it takes higher energies to see deeper into objects at smaller scales. By restricting …

[Michael Thibault]

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or it doesn't didn't happen. Or whatever.

[Anonymous Coward]

"A paper published in Science [paywalled] shows that by tiny nanoparticles of gold can be used as a cavity to trap light below to less than a billionth of a metre."

Could you rewrite so it makes sense? Thanks

[illiad]

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well since 'light' is from 400 to 700 nanometer (a billionth of a meter) I guess they must be talking 'baby words' to the press...

ONE nanometer and below is X-rays, then gamma rays..

[Chris 239]

Re: Fix!

I think the secret cow botherer was bemoaning the poor/nonsensical English in the quoted sentence.

The "by":

"....shows that by tiny nanoparticles of gold can be used...."

may be a typo or left over from a longer explanation?

[You aint sin me, roit]

Re: Fix!

To be fair, "used as a cavity to trap light below to less than a billionth of a metre" didn't make much sense either.