What is the coldest place on Earth you can think of? If your answer is the depths of Antarctica, you’re wrong. There is somewhere even colder here on Earth, in California of all places — or under it ...

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays, and ...

Since 2009, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray experiment has revealed our atomic world in unprecedented detail. Now, an upgrade (LCLS-II) more than a decade in the works has finally ...

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LCLS-II will produce up to one million X-ray pulses per second and will be 10,000 times brighter than its predecessor. Reading time 3 minutes Engineers who have toiled on the world’s most powerful ...

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 ...

The world’s brightest X-ray machine has just produced its first record-breaking X-rays, which will allow researchers to observe atoms, molecules and chemical reactions in unmatched detail. The machine ...

X-ray free-electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe ...

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With up to a million X-ray flashes per second, 8,000 times more than its predecessor, it transforms the ability of scientists to explore atomic-scale, ultrafast phenomena that are key to a broad range ...