![Molecular movie frames for the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-CHD molecule.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/molecular_movie_filmstrip_v1.jpg?h=2fe364dd&itok=V4aoaatQ)
![Molecular movie frames for the light-triggered transition of the ring-shaped 1,3-CHD molecule.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/molecular_movie_filmstrip_v1.jpg?h=2fe364dd&itok=V4aoaatQ)
One of modern science’s most important quests is to understand how the world works at the tiniest and fastest scales – the realm of atoms and molecules. Until a few years ago, all we had were static pictures of this world. But today scientists can make “movies” of molecules moving, bending and bursting apart.