They're now able to do stop-action photography on atoms and electrons.

On a somewhat larger - but still microscopic - scale, biologists can peer into the nucleus of a living cell and spy on the interaction of proteins, the basic building blocks of every organism. "We're watching the dance of the proteins in action," molecular biologist David Piwnica-Worms, also at Washington University, said.

For example, Douglass Forbes, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, has made movies of proteins shuttling cargo in and out of the nucleus of a cell through miniature, doughnut-shaped pores. "They're like small spaceships for nuclear transport," Forbes said.

The implications of this are immense.

This sounds extremely cool, but where are the mpegs?

That is so neat!

Does this mean Rudolph's Microscopic Christmas is a go?