Identifying and imaging catalytically active sites on solid surfaces is a grand challenge for science. A microscopy technique has been developed that images 'noise' to detect active sites with nanometre-scale resolution. See Letter p.74
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Dette, C., Boettcher, S. Catalytic hotspots get noisy. Nature 549, 34–35 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/549034a
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