X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short flashes of X-rays can help scientists peer into the ...

LCLS-II-HE is the second upgrade in as many years for a laser beam in Menlo Park, California, that reveals some of nature's most microscopic mysteries in sharp detail. Reading time 3 minutes A new ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat ...

A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD), are making progress in the ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution ...

With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...