Scientists have achieved first light with an upgrade to one of the most powerful X-ray lasers the world has ever seen. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) images individual atoms and molecules by ...

The US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has switched on the world's most powerful X-ray laser. The Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) ...

A team of scientists led by University of Nevada, Reno’s Hiroshi Sawada, an associate professor of the Physics Department, demonstrated that numerical modeling accurately reproduces x-ray images using ...

(Nanowerk News) Imagine taking movies of the fastest chemical processes, or imaging atomic-scale detail of single virus particles without damaging them. Researchers from Japan have advanced the ...

At particle accelerator facilities around the world, scientists rely on powerful X-rays to reveal the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules. Now, researchers from the Department of Energy's ...

A collaboration of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have generated the shortest hard X-ray pulses till date. They achieved this feat by demonstrating a powerful new type of laser ...

Scientists could soon probe the secrets of the smallest particles in the world in more detail than ever before following a major upgrade of the most powerful laser of its kind in the world. The U.S.

Scientists are using intense, ultra-short X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser to collect data on the 3-D structure of proteins and single-shot images of an intact virus. The feat demonstrates a ...

Scientists at the world’s largest X-ray laser facility have made a groundbreaking discovery, unveiling a new form of ice that remains solid at room temperature. This revelation not only marks a ...

Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometer wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed: the starting point is not a titanium-sapphire ...

Researchers have focused the beam of an X-ray free-electron laser to 6 nanometers, closer to the diameter of a typical atom than obtained in prior work. In conjunction with the extremely brief pulses ...