Sungsik Lee’s phone will sometimes ring at 2 or 3 a.m. It doesn’t happen often, he said, but when it does, his job is to spring into action. Lee is a beamline scientist, working at beamline 12-BM at ...

Physicists have devised a way to achieve higher doses and shorter treatment times for cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy with protons, circumventing the problems of internal organ motions. They ...

Catalysts make our modern lives possible. By reducing the start-up energy needed for chemical reactions, they facilitate the production of fuels, plastics and textiles as well as vital water treatment ...

Unseen neutrinos, visible lives: A photographer journeys through the Midwest. During a visit to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory six years ago, Vassilis Triantis learned about the Deep ...

A high-tech new piece of equipment, "creating space on Earth" to test the resilience of space technology, is set to help Australia's space industry skyrocket. Space technology's ability to handle ...

The IRIS infrared beamline at the BESSY II storage ring now offers a fourth option for characterizing materials, cells and even molecules on different length scales. The team has extended the IRIS ...

Beamline analysis is a vital technique used in the study of structural and crystallographic properties of materials. Based in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron. Its ...

Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, is celebrating an important milestone this month as a 2 year project to design and build a highly specialised in vacuum X-ray ...

AMMAN — On December 17, SESAME opened the doors of its Materials Science (MS) beamline to a team from the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) in Jordan, making this instrument, which is dedicated to ...