The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices that could be 10,000 times faster than today's.

The studies could lead to a new understanding of how high-temperature superconductors operate.

Here's a glimpse of what we've been up to during the last experimental run – from June to November 2017 – at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

A new X-ray laser technique allows scientists to home in on these single-electron triggers to better understand organic molecules that respond to light, including receptors in your eyes, plastic products and DNA building blocks that need to protect themselves from cancer-causing mutations.