Nobel 2016

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa shared the chemistry prize for building mechanical devices like motors and lifts using molecules for parts. This is a representative image. Credit: ucdaviscoe/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

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A cup filled with superfluid helium. Because of quantum mechanical effects, the helium will crawl up the sides of the cup in a thin film and collect as a droplet on the outside, and drip below. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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