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A new video explains how a particle accelerator built to produce X-rays billions of times brighter than the sun is revealing the workings of life at the molecular levelIf you have ever gazed at a crystal of salt or a sparkling diamond and wondered to yourself how its internal structure might be revealed using light generated by a particle accelerator, then wonder no more. Thanks to the Royal Institutions Ed Prosser and funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a short video released today explains how the intense X-rays beams produced at the £400 million Diamond Light Source, a silver doughnut that nestles in the Oxfordshire countryside, are enabling scientists to peer right into the atomic heart of matter. Continue reading...
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