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One of the world’s brightest lights — the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory — just got a whole lot brighter. After an $815 million upgrade over more than a decade, the giant X-ray ...

KONTICH, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announces the launch of the new X4 POSEIDON™, a high-performance 3D X-ray microscope (XRM) using micro-Computed Tomography ...

New cathode materials are being developed to further increase the capacity of lithium batteries. Multilayer lithium-rich transition metal oxides (LRTMOs) offer particularly high energy density.

Open the Youtube video In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had ...

Researchers have developed a unique shape-tunable mirror that can change shape to optimally channel X-rays. It is composed of a single crystal of lithium niobate. This new technology offers the ...

What is Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM)? Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM) is a powerful imaging technique that combines the principles of X-ray spectroscopy and microscopy ...

X-ray microscopes have the advantage of penetrating most substances, so internal organs and skeletons can be observed non-invasively through chest X-rays or CT scans. Recently, studies to increase the ...

Batteries are an integral component of the energy transition from fossil fuels to energy sustainability, playing a critical role in the storage and accessibility of energy. It is important to ...

A pelvic X-ray is a type of X-ray that captures detailed images of the pelvic region, which includes the pelvis, hips, and upper legs. Pelvic X-rays are typically quick and painless, requiring little ...