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Submission + - Breakthrough in imaging 3D chemistry at nanometer resolution (phys.org) 1

Submitted by Hovden
Hovden writes: A recent leap in our ability to see the chemistry of matter in three-dimensions at the nanoscale was achieved, allowing scientists to understand how nanomaterials are chemically arranged. Measuring the 3D distribution of chemistry at the nanoscale is a longstanding challenge for metrological science. Traditionally, seeing matter at the smallest sizes requires too many high-energy electrons for 3D chemical imaging. The high beam exposure that destroys the specimen before an experiment is completed. Even larger doses are required to achieve high resolution. Thus, chemical mapping in 3D has been unachievable except at lower resolution with the most radiation-hard materials.

High-resolution 3D chemical imaging is now achievable near or below one-nanometer resolution by a team from Dow Chemical and the University of Michigan. Using a newly introduced method, called multi-modal data fusion, high-resolution chemical tomography provides 99% less dose by linking information encoded within both elastic and inelastic scattered signals. The researches show sub-nanometer 3D resolution of chemistry is measurable for a broad class of geometrically and compositionally complex materials.
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South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" 421

Posted by timothy from the tell-me-again-about-our-troubled-youth dept.
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes In South Carolina a 16-year old boy, Alex Stone, was arrested and charged with creating a disturbance at his school, as well as suspended, for choosing to write: "I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business," in response to a class writing assignment. The story has attracted international attention.

Submission + - Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via "Pipelight" (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With Netflix continuing to rely upon Microsoft Silverlight, the video streaming service hasn't been supported for Linux users as the Mono-based "Moonlight" implementation goes without Netflix support. However, there is now Netflix support for Linux-based web-browsers via the open-source Pipelight project. Pipelight supports Netflix and other Silverlight-based web applications by having a Netscape plug-in that in turn communicates with a Windows program running under Wine. The Windows program then simulates a browser to load the Silverlight libraries. Netflix then works as the Pipelight developers implemented support for the Netflix DRM scheme within Wine.
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Matplotlib For Python Developers 119

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
Craig Maloney writes "Ever since there was a collection of numbers, it seems that invariably someone will want a graph of those numbers. There are literally hundreds of different styles of graphs, and almost as many programs and tools to make those graphs. Matplotlib, a library and toolkit for the Python language, provides an easy and effective way to make some impressive graphics with little more than a smattering of Python. Matplotlib for Python Developers is equally impressive at distilling the core set of features of Matplotlib in a way that shows the reader how to get the most out the Matplotlib toolkit." Read below for the rest of Craig's review.

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