Seasons Greetings from the world's most itty bitty snowman ever! Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK must be feeling the spirit of the season, because they took some time out this year to create the world's tiniest snowman.

So just how tiny is he, exactly? 10 µm across, or 1/5th the width of a human hair. WOW! The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism (we'll pretend we know what that means if you do). The eyes and smiles were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, less than 0.001 mm wide, is ion beam deposited platinum.

Here's a video with more info about how this little one was made:

Learn more about miniature Frosty here.

We want one!