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One of the world’s brightest lights — the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory — just got a whole lot brighter. After an $815 million upgrade over more than a decade, the giant X-ray ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the ...

A new x-ray microscopy technique permits observation of molecular-scale features less than a nanometer in height. Developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne (IL) National ...

KONTICH, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announces the launch of the new X4 POSEIDON™, a high-performance 3D X-ray microscope (XRM) using micro-Computed Tomography ...

New cathode materials are being developed to further increase the capacity of lithium batteries. Multilayer lithium-rich transition metal oxides (LRTMOs) offer particularly high energy density.

Researchers have developed a unique shape-tunable mirror that can change shape to optimally channel X-rays. It is composed of a single crystal of lithium niobate. This new technology offers the ...

3D representation of the gold structure based on the dark field images (left) and the attenuation images (right). Credit: Hereon/ Sami Wirtensohn X-ray microscopes are essential for examining ...

From left: Award recipients Kazuhiko Omote, General Manager, X-ray Research Laboratory; and Raita Hirose, Imaging Group, Advanced Analytical Technology Research Department, X-ray Laboratory (Photo: ...

Superionic water could be responsible for the peculiar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune. Researchers have analyzed it ...

The left side of the figure shows nanotomography images of an LRTMO particle taken at the TXM of BESSY II before the first charging cycle (top) and after 10 charging cycles (bottom). In the simulation ...