World's tiniest Mona Lisa. Eat your heart out, Adele.

Via Nature World News:

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have painted the smallest-ever image of Mona Lisa. The painting was created using an atomic force microscope and a process called ThermoChemical NanoLithography (TCNL) and is painted on a substrate that is 30 microns in width or about one-third the width of a human hair. (Source)

mini-lisa-image

(Pic above is not actual size. Click on it for an enlargement of the... tiny micro version. Or something.)

Dust mites are gathering around it, going "Ooohhh" and "Aaahhh."

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