On target: profile of the electron beam at the Advanced Light Source. (Courtesy: Berkeley Lab) Machine learning has been used by scientists in the US to reduce unwanted fluctuations in photon beams ...

Researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Michigan and Instituto Superior Téchnico Lisbon have created a tabletop device that produces synchrotron X-rays, the energy and image ...

Chemists, biologists, and other scientists travel across the globe to football field-size synchrotron facilities to use the brilliant light the machines emit for various spectroscopic experiments, ...

February 7, 2007 This week marks the dawn of a new era of scientific endeavour as Diamond Light Source, the UK’s brand new synchrotron facility, opens its doors for business and welcomes its very ...

Andrew Peele works for the Australian Synchrotron on secondment from La Trobe University. He receives funding from the ARC. Nancy Mills works for the Australian Synchrotron. Science is like ...

Shining light: the Extremely Brilliant Source, or ESRF-EBS, boosts the brilliance and coherence of the X-ray beams at the facility by around a factor of 100 over its predecessor. (Courtesy: ESRF/S ...

Students at Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation in Saskatchewan got an opportunity to learn about the nutrition of a bison herd in their community using a synchrotron — a light machine that looks at ...

The light generated by synchrotron radiation is produced when charged particles are accelerated by an electric field, unlike lasers that generate coherent light using transitions between atomic energy ...