The screen slides open and tilts to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard for fast, comfortable typing, while productivity features such as the ability to sort, scan and manage Outlook email, open and edit the latest Office documents and keep track of the markets with HTC's stocks application, offer new ways to get more out of the business day.

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Dr Hinterdorfer points out that, theoretically, any sort of molecule can be tethered to the end of the microscope's tip and used to scan for the presence of another molecule for which it has a particular affinity.

ECONOMIST: Microscopy