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The Ultimate Camo: team to mimic camouflage skill of marine animals in high-tech materials

A camouflage expert collaborating with materials scientists and nanotechnologists toward the goal of developing materials that can mimic cephalopod camouflage.

Mapping Crime Patterns with Geography and Math

Today, combining the eye of a designer with statistics and computer science, researchers are trying to create software that can sift through mountains of crime data to find geographic patterns and then create visually evocative maps for police departments.

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Highlights from Pittcon2011: What's new at LABVANTAGE

Jerry Hacker of LABVANTAGE speaks to Suzanne Tracy at Pittcon2011 about their LIMS LabVantage 6 and their new ELN.

Meeting Unstructured Data Storage Requirements with Scale-Out Storage

Scale-out storage systems can independently scale both throughput and capacity by adding nodes that work in parallel and are managed as one. These systems can scale to multiple petabytes under a single system image, making them an ideal consolidation platform. Scale-out storage pools virtualize the underlying storage, creating a resource that can adapt as business needs change; bandwith, processing power, and storage capacity can be independently. Continue to White Paper

INDUSTRY NEWS

American Chemical Society Journal features "The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

A special online edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Education (JCE) features a collection of mysteries based on the famous Sherlock Holmes detective series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but with a chemistry twist. Titled "The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," the series features Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, as they use chemistry to solve a wide range of mysteries.

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3D Vision Pro

3D Vision Pro, is designed to enable engineers, designers, architects and computational chemists who work with complex 3-D designs to see their work in greater detail.

IMAGE OF THE DAY

Alaska's Susitna Glacier

Alaska's Susitna Glacier revealed some of its long, grinding journey when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead.