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Tag: x-ray
Color X-Ray imaging is just around the corner — and we have the photos to prove it
It will make X-rays invaluable in fields it had no place in previously.
X-Rays could sterilise alien planets that would be otherwise habitable
It's a small chance, but having a small chance of something wiping out all of life on a planet still ...
World’s biggest X-ray laser comes online in the Germany city of Hamburg
We will be able to see the very fabric of the world make and break.
Supermassive black hole spotted struggling with its galactic meal
Sometimes, even a black hole can choke on its meal.
Neutron and X-ray imaging reveal how ancient weapons were made
Looking deep inside a knife.
What China’s latest X-ray positioning satellite means for deep-space exploration
Made in China might become a stamp for innovation, not replication.
Astronomers may have discovered a new cosmic phenomena — and we don’t really know what it is
What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.
One of the oldest known New Testament copies could have been written in pee-based ink
This ink is number 1. Literally.
Most powerful X-ray machine blasts water droplets for science
Stanford researchers fired extremely bright flashes of light from the world's most powerful X-ray laser onto droplets of liquid. These ...
A radioactive couple: the glowing legacy of the Curies
Together, these two brilliant people forever changed how we understand the world we live in. They did so at a ...
High-resolution spectroscopy could revolutionize seawater uranium capture
New imaging techniques might revolutionize the technologies currently used to capture uranium from seawater, as researchers gain a better understanding ...
Millions of supermassive black holes are hiding under thick blankets of dust and gas
Our Universe may be riddled with millions of supermassive black holes, a new study reports. The reason why we haven't ...
Strange “X-Ray Rainbow” could be used to calculate stellar distances
NASA released the breathtaking image you see below, announcing that it is basically X-ray light echoes reflecting off clouds of dust. ...
X-Ray Technique Reveals Charred Scrolls From Vesuvius Eruption
Using a new X-Ray technique, archaeologists may be able to read the words from the charred, rolled up scrolls that ...
Inside the human body in real time: GIFs demo the power of CT scan
CT shines in its ability to image tissue inside the body otherwise unapproachable using other methods. All of the GIFs ...
Three Egyptian mummies receive CT scans
The Washington University received some unusual patients to scan: three Egyptian mummies. Curators and radiologists examine the mummy of Pet-Menekh ...
Heart injected with liquid metal imaged with unprecedented detail
Imaging the fine and intricate structures of blood vessels in the human body is paramount to modern anatomy. By knowing the ...
Suspended nanojuice allows real-time imaging of the gut
Patients would drink the 'nanojuice' like water. The liquid allows for easier and better quality imaging of the small intestine. ...
NASA’s black-hole-hunter finds its first 10 supermassive black holes
NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has located its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission ...
Seeing a reaction in real-time using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, once home to the longest particle accelerator for ...
NuSTAR’s high power X-ray images two unusually bright black holes in spiral galaxy [STUNNING PHOTOS]
The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA Launched just last year, NASA's Nuclear ...
Mars bite tastes like Earth – soil similar to Hawaii
The Martian sand collected by the Curiosity rover turns out to be similar to volcanic soil on Hawaii, NASA scientists ...
The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge, hot halo of gas
Recent measurements conducted by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and observed by other X-ray instruments from around world and in space, suggest that ...
Stingray X-ray [picture]
Just an X-ray of a stingray, nothing more to add here.
The death cry of a star being destroyed by a black hole
Stars suffer, too, you know. Astronomers have recently discovered a distinctive X-ray signal coming from a star on the verge ...
Free-electron X-ray laser reveals protein architecture at unprecedented detail
Curious enough, one hundred years after renowned physicist Max von Lauefirst used X-ray diffraction to unravel the intricate atomic architecture of molecules, ...
World’s most powerful X-ray laser heats matter at 2 million degrees
Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser fired upon a neon gas capsule ...
X-raying a 120 million year old bird
Using a new X-raying technique and device, based on synchrotron radiation, scientists have been able to map the pigmentation of ...
X-Ray 1896 machine compared to modern one
Scientists have dusted and cleaned some X-Ray equipment dating shortly after the discovery of the rays in 1895 and found ...
Meet the world’s most powerful X-Ray laser
The first experiments with this laser (Linac Coherent Light Source) have been given the green light at the Department of ...
Scientists to recreate the perfume worn by pharaoh Hatshepsut
An exquisite fragrance has always been considered to be a status symbol especially because of the difficulties encountered in order ...
