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World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

The World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Is Getting a Huge Upgrade

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.

World's most powerful x-ray laser made in Bay Area lab set for upgrade

The world's most powerful X-ray laser is located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the Bay Area, and it's about to become even more powerful. "We can create much faster, much longer-lasting electronics.

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New upgrade will supercharge atomic vision of the world's most powerful X-ray laser

The Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for construction to begin on a high-energy upgrade that will further boost the performance of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's most powerful X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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US: World’s most powerful X-ray laser to get 3,000 times more powerful

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray laser located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, is set for a major upgrade that will increase its X-ray energy 3,

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NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees streams of gas cross in distant galaxy cluster (image)

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope detected two new streams of gas trailing behind a galaxy within a cluster called Zwicky 8338, ...

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Could nukes deflect an asteroid? ‘X-ray scissors’ offer scientists clues.

“For a one-nanometer fall, we can ignore Earth’s gravity for 20 millionths of a second as Z produces a burst of X-rays that ...

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XRISM’s X-Ray Insights Uncover the Hidden Structures of Black Holes and Supernovas

XRISM revealed the structure, motion, and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova ...

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X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission unveils black hole and supernova remnant surroundings

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...

1st results of XRISM X-ray space telescope reveal black hole and supernova secrets

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...

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Samsung fined just $8K for exposing chip fab workers to X-ray radiation

Samsung was accused of failing to comply with technical standards for handling radiation-generating devices, which will ...

The World’s Oldest Cheese Was Found Rubbed On Mummies, X-Ray Pulses Are The Latest Idea For Deflecting Asteroids, And Much More This Week

Researchers have resurrected a strange seed that was discovered in a cave in the Judean desert during the 1980s. According to ...

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Woman going through airport arrested immediately after staff take one look at X-ray

The unnamed 30-year-old was arrested on arrival at OR Tambo International Airport Johannesburg after police were tipped off ...

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Could an X-ray pulse save Earth from an asteroid strike?

Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...

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Study inspects unusual behavior of an X-ray binary

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...

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