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X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum
... the growing collection of digital images managed by the museum’s staff. “The availability of this advanced x-ray system will have tremendous benefits not only for research, but also for management of ...Artist’s X-ray images seek beauty underneath
X-rays – they’re not just for doctors’ offices and airport security anymore. At least, not for British artist Nick Veasey. From tulips to tennis playing skeletons, laptops to a Boeing 777, Veasey ...How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security
... 1 terahertz (THz), penetrate just a short distance into surfaces without the ionizing damage caused by X-rays. The technology could be used to detect skin cancer or image dental ...X-rays Often Repeated For Patients In Developing Countries
Patients in developing countries often need to have X-ray examinations repeated so that doctors have the image quality they need for useful medical diagnosis, the IAEA is learning. The findings come ...How To Make Microwaves On A Chip To Replace X-rays For Medical Imaging And Security
... 1 terahertz, penetrate just a short distance into surfaces without the ionizing damage caused by X-rays. The technology could be used to detect skin cancer or image dental flaws beneath the enamel.Superconducting 'Universal Toolkit' Takes X-Rays To The Nano Scale
Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human ...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.Feature: Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools
A new X-ray tool could help biologists shed light on the body’s innermost workings, providing details that could have enormous value to chemists designing drugs, such as new antibiotics to ...A novel X-ray source could be brightest in the world
... electron pulse enters an undulator and generates an x-ray that is reflected back into the undulator entrance ... ideally suited for bulk-sensitive, hard x-ray photo-emission spectroscopy for this purpose ...Argonne's Hard X-ray Nanoprobe provides new capability to study nanoscale materials
... that significantly higher spatial resolution will be reached over the lifetime of the Nanoprobe. The Hard X-ray Nanoprobe was designed, constructed and is operated in partnership between the CNM ...Hard X-ray Nanoprobe Provides New Capability To Study Nanoscale Materials
... at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful X-ray microscopes. It has been designed to study novel nanoscale materials and devices aimed at, for ...Nano Mirrors Could Improve NASA's Next X-Ray Telescope
Nano mirrors can bend x-rays in NASA's next generation space telescope.Possible link found between X-rays and prostate cancer
... The study showed that men who had a hip or pelvic X-ray or barium enema 10 years ... further investigation into this link should be undertaken. X-ray procedures used for diagnostic purposes deliver ...Scientists close in on source of X-rays in lightning
... engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day ... doctors with a clearer view inside patients, X-rays allow us to probe parts ...Super-resolution X-ray microscopy
A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer ... in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, making it ...
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