Day: November 6, 2016

First Color Images Produced By an Electron Microscope

Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: Imagine spending your whole life seeing the world in black and white, and then seeing a vase of roses in full color for the first time. That’s kind of what it was like for the scientists who have taken the first multicolor images of cells using an electron microscope. Electron microscopes can magnify an object up to 10 million times, allowing researchers to peer into the inner workings of, say, a cell or a fly’s eye, but until now they’ve only been able to see in black and white. The new advance — 15 years in the making — uses three different kinds of rare earth metals called lanthanides…layered one-by-one over cells on a microscope slide. The microscope detects when each metal loses electrons and records each unique loss as an artificial color. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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First Color Images Produced By an Electron Microscope

The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn’t Exist

A two-year FBI investigation apparently centered on the satirical web site “GodHatesGoths”. Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes: In 2005, the FBI launched an investigation into the “Church of the Hammer, ” a fundamentalist Christian sect which called for the wholesale slaughter of practitioners of the goth subculture. Two years later, the investigation was closed, on grounds that the Church didn’t exist. The FBI’s threat assessment detailed “an extremely right-wing Christian group that adheres to a Middle Ages Catholic text called the ‘Malleus Malificarum.'” But MuckRock.com reports that “The Bureau’s main source on the case was a goth who had engaged with members of the Church via their Yahoo Group…trying to dispel their misconceptions about the relationship between the subculture and Satanism.” After two years of scouring through crime databases and making phone calls to the Salem police department, FBI investigators actually visited the GodHatesGoths web site — which turned out to be a parody. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn’t Exist