Electron microscopes use beams electrons to illuminate a specimen at an extremely high magnified image. The electron microscope maginifies things so greatly that scientists can now identify subatomic structures and study them in greater depths can before with a light microscope. This is greatly beneficial to society because now scientists can identify cell structures, sub-atomic particles and much more. Now that we have this technology we can apply them to real life situations. Some of these situations are health conditions, and self cleaning windows for businesses. Another subject that was cool was that really small particles behave differently than bigger ones. The bucky ball projection was really cool because we actually got the see how they would react and respond to environmental forces. The reactions were slightly different than regular reactions. For example the buckyballs changed shape instead of just shifting to another position.
I think that artists can also incorperate their work with these new discoveries. Artists maybe can make sculptures of atoms or use their relative size to try and portray. Also artists starting using nanoart which uses nano landscapes and nano sculptures. Nano landscapes are molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at the atomic scale. Nano sculptures are structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at the atomic scale. This is a new form of art that has been created. This shows the connection of art and science and how they collarate with eachother to come up with new ideas.
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/microscopes/tem/index.html
http://www.nanotech-now.com/nanotube-buckyball-sites.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_microscope#Transmission_Electron_Microscope_.28TEM.29