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Macro, Micro, Nano
How small is a nanometer? Stepping down in size by powers of 10 takes you from the back of a hand to, at one nanometer, a view of atoms in the building blocks of DNA. The edge of each image denotes a length 10 times longer than its next smallest neighbor. The black square frames the size of the next scene inward.


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