X-ray science

A new paper describes a way to fabricate glasses that can correct X-ray focusing problems at synchrotrons and X-ray lasers.

A research collaboration designed a new assembly-line system that rapidly replaces exposed samples and allows the team to study reactions in real-time.

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.

X-rays show details of an insect virus’s crystalline cocoon with sub-nanometer resolution.

The contaminant binds to organic matter in sediments, which increases persistence in groundwater.

Kelly Gaffney is the director of SSRL, SLAC's synchrotron that produces extremely bright x-rays as a resource for researchers to study our world at the atomic and molecular level of energy production, environmental remediation, nanotechnology, new materials and medicine.

Using an electric field, researchers drew magnetic designs in nonmagnetic material. These efforts could lead to new types of storage devices.

Scientists at Stanford and SLAC use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires.

After 30 years in industry, he is leading a new focus at the lab’s SSRL X-ray light source and looking for ways to build on research strengths at SLAC and Stanford.

Paleontologist Phil Manning describes the “Imaging Life on Earth” project at TEDxCharleston.

New X-ray methods have captured the highest resolution room-temperature images of photosystem II.