New Scientist reports that movie star atoms have been caught on film fooling around. A new microscope that employs a strobe affect can captures images at unprecendented speeds to produce footage of atoms moving around. “This demonstrates, impressively, how real-time observation of the microcosm can reveal features of matter otherwise inaccessible,” says Eleftherios Goulielmakis, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.