Nicknamed 'Punctum,' this puzzling phenomenon is highly energetic, but is only seen in millimeter-wavelength light and cannot ...

A synchrotron produces light by using radio frequency waves and powerful electromagnets to accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light. Energy is added to the electrons as they accelerate so ...

The powerful synchrotron X-rays produced by the CLS at the University of Saskatchewan enabled the researchers to create a detailed 3D model of both the T. rex bone and the soft tissue structures ...

Synchrotron radiation is the ultimate spin-off: a phenomenon first observed as an exasperating loss of energy in circular particle accelerators turned out to be an instrument for observing the ...

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a joint research facility supported by 19 countries (18 European countries and Israel) situated in Grenoble, France. It has an annual budget ...

Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world's oldest dinosaur eggs Dinosaur 'Easter eggs' reveal their secrets in 3D thanks to X-rays and high-powered computers ...

Since the first charged-particle synchrotrons were constructed in the 1940s, physicists have toyed with the idea of a neutral-particle synchrotron. In principle, “polar” molecules, which have a small ...

It was the first synchrotron in the southern hemisphere. The LNLS is about to be outstripped by a brand new, state-of-the-art Brazilian facility, Sirius, which began construction in December.

Single atom X-ray mechanism When X-rays illuminate an atom (red ball at the centre of the molecule), core level electrons are excited. X-ray-excited electrons then tunnel to the detector tip via ...

The plan is for a multi-million-pound synchrotron particle accelerator, known as Sesame. It has backing from several Arab nations, together with Turkey, Pakistan, Cyprus, Iran and - astonishingly ...