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Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

  • Written by Uwe Bergmann, Professor of Ultrafast X-Ray Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observedThe Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses.Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short flashes of X-rays can help scientists peer into the structure of individual atoms and molecules and...

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