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X-rays

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

Physics

Inside world’s ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it鈥檚 due for a shutdown and an upgrade. When it is turned back on, it will be even more powerful

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Technology

X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful

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Physics

X-ray laser fires most powerful pulse ever recorded

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Spiral strand of DNA

Chemistry

DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step molecular movie

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location of distant black hole

Space

Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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Physics

The world鈥檚 brightest X-ray machine has been turned on

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Chemistry

Decades-old mystery about photosynthesis finally solved

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An image of an area of space filled with red and blue gas, and scattered stars

Space

Our galaxy鈥檚 black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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The mummy of a boy digitally unwrapped in four stages

Humans

Egyptian boy mummy was buried with a 鈥榮econd heart鈥� made of gold

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The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Physics

The world’s ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

The Linac Coherent Light Source II X-ray laser will be so fast and bright that it will allow people to create movies of atoms moving inside molecules

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Space

We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Space

Baffling ‘space cow’ explosion was probably a failed supernova

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Humans

Marie Antoinette’s censored love letters have been read using X-rays

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Space

Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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