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  • Shortest-pulse X-ray beams could illuminate atomic, molecular interactions

    ... , table-top laser to create X-ray beams that rival those made in expensive and massive ... lasers to generate these bright, pointed X-ray beams for some time, McGuffey said. "The field has been focusing ...
  • Super-Powerful X-Ray Beam Will Probe the Center of the Earth

    ... and difficult to do. A newly revamped X-ray beam facility in Europe may be able to improve matters, and shed some light on just what is going ... Radiation Facility inaugurates its new ID24 beam today, in preparation for experiments next spring ...
  • Getting wise to the influenza virus' tricks

    ... crystals of it and examined them with the powerful X-ray beams of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). “Viruses are masters of cunning when it comes to hijacking ...
  • New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize

    ... chamber and is intersected by the synchrotron's x-ray beam, then collected by a cold skimmer and condensed ... of the system, says Saykally, are that in a vacuum the soft x-ray beam encounters only the liquid target -- there's no ...
  • Montana State University researchers map iron transport protein

    ... crystallized, the samples are shot with a powerful X-ray beam. Electrons in the sample diffract the X ... on a digital sensor. The technique, called X-ray crystallography, has been used since the 1950s to de-termine ...
  • Superconducting 'Universal Toolkit' Takes X-Rays To The Nano Scale

    ... from human proteins to forged art. X-ray beams from an energy-recovery linac (linear accelerator) could be both a thousand times brighter and a thousand ...
  • MIT team develops better X-ray nanomirrors

    A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.
  • A novel X-ray source could be brightest in the world

    ... technology uses undulators to create bright x-ray beams of spontaneous emission at the Advanced Photon ... from around the world are working to develop the high-quality electron beam necessary for the oscillator," Kim ...
  • The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet

    ... the same way, with much brighter x-ray beams and a much shorter pulse of light ... and the reference beams from the URA had been recorded. Together, the two experiments demonstrate that holographic x-ray ...
  • X-ray diffraction looks inside aerogels in 3-D

    ... the problem differently. A laser-like x-ray beam passes all the way through the sample ... are then processed by a computer. The way the photons in the beam are redirected from each component of the structure is different ... of mounting, rotating, and exposing the sample to the x-ray beam, about a minute per view – because ...
  • Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

    ... facility at Argonne. The technique uses the synchrotron X-ray beam to probe the electronic bonding change as a diamond anvil cell subjects a sample to many hundreds ...
  • Van Gogh Glimpse

    Powerful, focused x-ray beams reveal additional details of a master's painting.
  • X-rays use diamonds as a window to the center of the Earth

    ... Daresbury Laboratory, the team used an intense beam of x-rays to look at the conditions of formation for the mineral ... the Earth's surface. With a focused synchrotron X-ray beam less than half the width of a human ...
  • Landmark study opens door to new cancer, aging treatments

    ... , a technique that analyzes the diffraction patterns of X-rays beamed at crystals of a molecule, to determine the three-dimensional structure of the enzyme's active region—the catalytic ...
  • Improving our ability to peek inside molecules

    ... facility in Hamburg, Germany, are being used to provide the X-ray beams. But a new facility under construction ... than 100 femtoseconds, or one quadrillionth of a second - X-ray beams to examine nanoscale objects is not a new ...

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