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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University ...

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 ...

Lasers are cool, but x-ray lasers are cooler. Until now, the only x-ray lasers to ever exist have required so much power that their infrastructure took up the same amount of space as sports ...

Very cool, while I love to geek out on the LHC and the research done there it's also great to have a tool for doing research with more immediately useful results. Meailda[/url]":16nxlbms]So is it the ...