Awesome Snowman

You know the feeling – you just ate one too many Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and your mouth, esophagus, and stomach are starting to burn. This glass snowman is having an existential crisis after downing a bag of the spicy puffed snacks and is about to melt all over your Christmas tree. Toss a glass of milk on him for a new holiday tradition!

To show off their nanofabrication process, scientists at Western University used elecrton beam lithography to create this microscopic silica and platinum snowman that measures less than 3 microns tall. For comparison’s sake, a human hair is about 100 microns thick.