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Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource 2010 - 2011 run starts this week

The 2010–2011 user run starts this week at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. The run is scheduled to last until July 25, 2011, with an estimated 1500 users coming to SLAC over the course ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves 'First Light'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

X-rays used to reveal secrets of famous fossil

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Scientists study how nature cleans uranium from Colorado aquifer

Rifle, Colorado, is a small town on the Colorado River, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, that's big on natural resources. It attracts hunters, fishermen, hikers, rock climbers. Its striking scenery attracted ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Record conductivity achieved in strained lattice organic semiconductor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and clothing made of materials that can harvest energy from the sun needed to ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers show how iron activates oxygen in living things

Oxygen performs many key functions in the body’s internal chemistry, but the life-sustaining molecule can’t do its job alone. Now, SLAC researchers and their collaborators are learning more about ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sought-after magnetic properties in common alloy

In a paper published Nov. 2 in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by University of Maryland's Ichiro Takeuchi, in collaboration with Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource's Apurva Mehta, reported the di ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

K-B mirrors harness X-rays for science

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up close, they look simple as can be: a pair of metal bars, each with one side polished to a brilliant shine. One bar faces up, the other to one side.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

SLAC invention measures stroke damage in the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- A technique SLAC scientists invented for scanning ancient manuscripts is now being used to probe the human brain, in research that could lead to new medical imaging methods and better treatments ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists get first detailed look at nitrogen doping in single-layer graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strength, flexibility, transparency and high electrical conductivity of single-layer graphene make it a potentially unique and valuable material for the next generation of electronic devices. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Proteins better analyzed at room temperature, report finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins are jittery things – continually moving, flopping around and waving their molecular arms. These changes in position, known as conformations, are essential to how they do their ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors hold immense promise for use in thin film and flexible displays – picture an iPad you can roll up – but they haven’t yet reached the speeds needed to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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