If anybody has a clue what the above article is talking about after the first paragraph, please feel free to translate in the comments box.
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Well, I don't know about a complete translation, but I can explain the technology a bit. In a previous career I was a computer scientist (long story), and we got involved in a CT project at one point.
The technology is similar to a hospital CT scanner. They can focus a very narrow scanning beam and examine just one thin layer at a time. A very powerful computer puts together the results of the layer scans and builds up a 3D model of the whole.
Unlike a CT scan, they actually take the material sample apart, atom by atom, to find the actual molecular structure. I think they can use it to study failed steel (to figure out what about the steel structure made it fail), good steel (to figure out what "normal" looks like at the atomic level) and "improved steels" (to see what about the atomic structure made them better, in the hope of coming up with easier manufacturing methods for improved steels).
There are significant challenges:
Computer programming that can handle and store 72 million data points per hour, and then present it for useful analysis and visualiztion.
Holding the sample at very low temperatures so that, when they remove an atom, the other atoms don't re-arrange themselves.
I think that's a fair summary (of the parts I understood).
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Bloody marvellous.
That's what I thought it was trying to say. ;-)
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