X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical ...

Researchers have combined various x-ray imaging technologies to create multi-contrast images that can be used to detect threatening materials such as explosives in thousands of complicated scenarios.

Mini Das is a Moores professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. University of Houston researchers developed a new X-ray ...

Who doesn’t want an X-ray machine? But you need a special tube and super high voltage, right? [Project 326] says no, and produces a USB-powered device that uses a tube you can pick up two for a dollar ...

The formation of geological samples is the result of the constant depositing of inorganic and organic materials over millions of years. As layers of deposit accumulate, the increasing weight creates ...

“Watch your head; watch your feet,” Eric Fauve says as he enters a cryoplant sitting in a landscape of dry grass, eucalyptus trees, and oaks in Northern California. “We have rattlesnakes, deer, ...