A team of physicists including Russian researchers conducted an experiment that established control over the ultrafast motion of electrons at three attoseconds for the first time. (An attosecond is 1×10−18 of a second—that's ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 23, 2016
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Researchers have succeeded in using the immensely powerful X-ray pulses from the free electron laser (XFEL) facility SACLA to investigate excited-state induced transient lattice dynamics on sub-picosecond time scales in phase-change ...
Nanophysics
Feb 22, 2016
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Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting them to form high-quality crystals needed for X-ray studies of their structure. Now researchers have shown they can get sharp ...
General Physics
Feb 10, 2016
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Researchers assumed that tiny objects would instantly blow up when hit by extremely intense light from the world's most powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. But to their ...
Plasma Physics
Feb 1, 2016
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A crucial component of the European X-ray laser European XFEL has taken up operation: The so-called injector, the 45-metre long first part of the superconducting particle accelerator, has accelerated its first electrons to ...
General Physics
Dec 21, 2015
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Scientists have drawn up molecular blueprints of a tiny cellular 'nanomachine', whose evolution is an extraordinary feat of nature, by using one of the brightest X-ray sources on Earth.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 17, 2015
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a simple new way to study very delicate biological samples – like proteins at work in photosynthesis and components of protein-making ...
General Physics
Dec 9, 2015
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The most widely used technology for producing X-rays – used in everything from medical and dental imaging, to testing for cracks in industrial materials – has remained essentially the same for more than a century. But ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 24, 2015
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A newly upgraded high-power laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe's most extreme conditions, such as those ...
General Physics
Oct 6, 2015
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A major international collaboration launched by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is laying the technical groundwork for taking individual, atomic-scale portraits of intact viruses, living bacteria ...
General Physics
Sep 2, 2015
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