An approach to microscopy has been developed that can be used to determine, from a single imaging angle, both the position of a specimen's individual atoms in the plane of observation and the atoms' vertical position. See Letter p.243
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Saldin, D. Reconstructing the third dimension. Nature 486, 197–198 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/486197a
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