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 ...

Scientists are preparing to unleash an extraordinarily powerful X-ray beam that will help reveal how the universe works at the tiniest scales. The beam is made possible thanks to an upgrade to the ...

A powerful X-Ray machine at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park is giving a special look into some historic documents. With a combination of history, science, technology and liberal arts, ...

The printing press, one of the most important inventions in human history, was developed around the same time by two very different cultures, separated by vast distances. Was it serendipity? Or a ...

Crews cooled a tunnel housing a particle accelerator to negative 456 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature cooler than much of space — on April 15. Part of an upgrade project to Linac Coherent Light ...

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing photons ...

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