To make the breakthrough, a team of physicists at IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom used a device called a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

为了取得突破，一组物理学家们在瑞士的苏黎世的IBM实验室和英国的利物浦大学使用了一个名为扫描隧道显微镜(STM)的装置。

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Scientific research has long been a solitary endeavour—one researcher, one microscope.

科学研究长期以来都是一项孤独的行为——研究者和一架显微镜。

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Meanwhile, a worldwide network of environmental sensors monitors the planet in real time. And research satellites observe it from above, as if the earth were under a microscope.

同时，全球的环境监测器随时对地球进行观察，就仿佛把地球置于一个显微镜下面。

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Once-upon-a-laugh-track, many brands kept the humor strictly off camera, but Brand Keys has put one of those categories under the research microscope to see how humor is working in a field once thought far too serious to put in the hands of comedy: Car Insurance.

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According to Dr. Jonathan Knowles, former President of Research, Roche Group and vice chairman, Caris Life Sciences, Dallas, Texas, the extreme microscope is a revolutionary piece of technology that will dramatically change how pathology is practiced, specifically in regard to cancer research.

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