Scientists have used the powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to make the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules - one that flips an RNA "switch" ...
General Physics
Nov 14, 2016
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An important milestone in the construction of the X-ray laser European XFEL has been reached: The 1.7-km long superconducting accelerator is installed in the tunnel. The linear accelerator will accelerate bunches of free ...
General Physics
Sep 29, 2016
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Structural biology research conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has uncovered how small insecticidal protein crystals that are naturally produced by bacteria might be tailored ...
Biochemistry
Sep 28, 2016
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One of the most famous mind-twisters of the quantum world is the thought experiment known as "Schroedinger's Cat," in which a cat placed in a box and potentially exposed to poison is simultaneously dead and alive until someone ...
General Physics
Sep 21, 2016
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Imagine getting a medical X-ray that comes out blank – as if your bones had vanished. That's what happened when scientists cranked up the intensity of the world's first X-ray laser, at the Department of Energy's SLAC National ...
General Physics
Aug 30, 2016
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Some of the fastest processes in our body run their course in proteins activated by light. The protein rhodopsin sees to it that our eyes can rapidly take in their ever-changing surroundings. Free-electron X-ray lasers such ...
General Physics
Aug 23, 2016
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Imagine you could stop being human-sized for a while and shrink down to the size of a bacterium, roughly one-millionth of your current stature. At this scale, you would stop being bound by gravity and instead discover that ...
Nanophysics
Aug 16, 2016
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According to researcher Alexander Potylitsyn, head of the Department of Applied Physics at TPU, X-ray and laser radiation are commonly used in modern medicine, but separately from each other. X-rays allow doctors to superficially ...
General Physics
Aug 16, 2016
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Scientists are installing new mirrors to improve the quality of the X-ray laser beam at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
General Physics
Aug 3, 2016
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A new device at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 17, 2016
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