Science Common Sense


1787 - How does something work at the nanoscale or What is at the nanoscale?

Imagine things that are too small to see with your eyes. The nanoscale is when objects are 1 to 100 nanometers in size, which is really, really tiny (1 nanometer = 0.000001 millimeters).

At this scale, objects start behaving differently than the things you see in everyday life. They can be made of just a few atoms, which is like a handful of LEGO blocks.

Some things you'd find at the nanoscale include:

Some cool things happen at the nanoscale:

So, the nanoscale is like a magical world where the normal rules don't always apply, and scientists are still discovering new and exciting things there.