History Capital on Instagram: "In 2013, IBM Research unveiled A Boy and His Atom, the world’s smallest stop-motion film, certified by Guinness World Records. Crafted by scientists like Andreas Heinrich, it features a playful boy—fashioned from individual carbon monoxide molecules—bouncing a ball, dancing, and befriending a mischievous atom on a trampoline. Using a scanning tunneling microscope at -268°C, they manipulated thousands of atoms on a copper surface, magnifying the scene 100 million ti