News tagged with advanced light source
Advanced Light Source finds big surprise in Paleozoic scorpion fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s not quite Jurassic Park, but who wants Paleozoic scorpions scurrying around anyway? Scientists used a powerful microscope at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2011 |
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LCLS comes online
The recently opened Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SNAL) provides scientists around the world with a brilliant new tool to understand fundamental properties ...
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Making a Magnetic Moment in a Split Picosecond
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wide range of phenomena in nature and technology depend on changes that occur in a material after it is illuminated with visible light. A well-known example is photosynthesis, where successive ...
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Squeezing Information from Materials under Extreme Pressure
(PhysOrg.com) -- By compressing tiny amounts of material between two diamond anvils, scientists have for more than three decades been able to achieve pressures of over 1 million atmospheres. The physical changes ...
May 31, 2010 |
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The Molecular Mechanics of Hearing and Deafness (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our senses are essential for survival and for the exploration of natural environments, and much has been learned about the molecular basis of vision, olfaction, and taste. Yet only a few of ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Brain protein critical to movement, memory, and learning deciphered at the Advanced Light Source
(PhysOrg.com) -- The structure of a protein that is sending electrical pulses between neurons in your brain as you read this article has been fully mapped for the first time using Lawrence Berkeley National ...
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Collagen Measured in Soft Tissues
Coherent X-ray Diffraction patterns of collagen in soft tissues have been measured for the first time by Dr Felisa Berenguer at the London Centre for Nanotechnology with her colleagues.
Sep 01, 2009 |
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