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Latest Press Releases January 29, 2012
Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallised in living cells DESY
An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. January 27, 2012
Successful Development of the World’s Fastest Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Technique that Can Identify the Chemical Species and Quantities of Molecules Adsorbed on the Surface KEK
Associate Professor Kenta Amemiya of the Institute of Materials Structure Science at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and colleagues have developed in collaboration with a group led by Professor Hiroshi Kondo of Keio University School of Science and Technology, the world’s fastest soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy to continuously measure the chemical species and quantities of molecules contained in one or less monolayer*1 unit of the surface of a solid. January 25, 2012
A New Discovery Answers an Old Question APS
The transition-metal monoxide FeO is an archetypal example of a Mott insulator—a material that should conduct electricity under conventional band theories but becomes an insulator when measured, especially at low temperatures—and a major iron-bearing component of the Earth’s interior. January 25, 2012
World's most powerful X-ray laser creates 2-million-degree matter SSRL
Researchers working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a 2-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. January 25, 2012
Scientists Create First Atomic X-ray Laser SSRL
Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery. January 25, 2012
The first atomic X-ray laser DESY
A group of scientists headed by Nina Rohringer from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) realized the first X-ray laser based on atoms at the Californian research centre SLAC. Using neon atoms, they generated ultra-short X-ray bursts of unique colour purity. January 25, 2012
Guinness World Record: DESY's X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie DESY
It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. News February 1, 2012 - University of Delaware
New technology boosts Saskatoon synchrotron
New technology in Saskatoon is helping researchers from around the world get closer to curing diseases.... February 1, 2012 - ckom.com
Department of Energy renews Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium grant
The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Delaware $1.3 million for continued catalysis research using facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).... February 1, 2012 - The Sydney Morning Herald
Shorter, purer X-rays to capture minute changes
The researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory aimed the laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved.... January 31, 2012 - SLAC
Shaken, Not Heated: the Ideal Recipe for Manipulating Magnetism
Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) laser light without heating the material up.... January 31, 2012 - SLAC
Researchers at SLAC Test Collider Closer to Creating Fully Coherent X-rays
Many advanced laser technologies, such as laser spectroscopy, that use precise wavelengths of infrared, visible or ultraviolet laser light could benefit from using X-ray light as well.... January 31, 2012 - The Engineer
Researchers create extremely hot and dense plasma
The team carried out the experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) within the US Department of Energy (DOE), which creates X-rays.... January 30, 2012 - physorg.com
Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices
In a new study, researchers led by Professor Chad A. Mirkin from Northwestern University used the high-intensity X-rays provided at beamline 5-ID of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to look at "nanoparticle superlattices".... January 26, 2012 - Nanowerk
Physicists develop single-photon emitting light source
Tiny components with the ability to emit single particles of light are important for various technological innovations.... January 26, 2012 - The Verge
SLAC develops two new record-breaking lasers: most powerful and most precise
Researchers working in the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University have hit upon two new major developments in laser technology by creating both the world's most powerful and world's most precise lasers.... January 25, 2012 - Azom.com
Researchers Study Magnetic Structure Change Process Intricately Using X-ray Laser
Paul Scherrer Institute’s researchers have succeeded in accurately understanding how a material’s magnetic structure changes.... January 23, 2012 - Science Daily
How Fic Proteins Regulate Their Potentially Lethal Enzyme Activity
Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have been able to elucidate a regulatory mechanism conserved throughout evolution which forces the largely unexplored enzyme family of Fic proteins into an inactive resting state.... January 23, 2012 - Wisconsin State Journal
Catching Up: Work continues despite funding cut for Synchrotron Radiation Center
The Synchrotron Radiation Center, a major UW-Madison science center, is still running despite losing its federal funding last year.... January 20, 2012 - R & D Magazine
Study Offers Insight into Delicate Biochemical Balance Required for Plant Growth
In an ongoing effort to understand how modifying plant cell walls might affect the production of biomass and its breakdown for use in biofuels, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered a delicate biochemical balance essential for sustainable plant growth and reproduction....
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