The camera built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Aerospace Information Research Institute can decipher details just 1.7mm across from 100km away (Getty) Scientists in China have built the world’s ...

and tell the distance to objects with an accuracy of 15.6mm – a level of detail 100 times better than what can be seen with the leading spy cameras and telescopes that use lenses.

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