Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII ("ice seven"), found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 11, 2017
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The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light ...
General Physics
Jul 10, 2017
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first direct measurements, and by far the most precise ones, of how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations ...
General Physics
Jul 6, 2017
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In experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists were able to see the first step of a process that protects a DNA building block called thymine from sun damage: When it's hit with ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2017
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An international team of scientists has for the first time used an X-ray free-electron laser to unravel the structure of an intact virus particle on the atomic level. The method used dramatically reduces the amount of virus ...
General Physics
Jun 19, 2017
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Chemical reactions could be probed in even greater detail using a method invented by Imperial researchers that better characterises ultrafast X-rays.
General Physics
Jun 5, 2017
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When scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world's most powerful X-ray laser on a small molecule, they got a surprise: A single laser pulse stripped ...
General Physics
May 31, 2017
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Big leaps in technology require big leaps in design – entirely new approaches that can take full advantage of everything the technology has to offer.
General Physics
Apr 28, 2017
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A novel way to harness lasers and plasmas may give researchers new ways to explore outer space and to examine bugs, tumors and bones back on planet Earth.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 26, 2017
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The international X-ray laser European XFEL has reached one of its final major milestones on the way to scientific user operation. DESY has successfully commissioned the particle accelerator, which drives the X-ray laser ...
General Physics
Apr 19, 2017
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