Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY X-ray beams aren’t used just by ...

New technology has allowed scientists to create ultra short ion pulses, with a duration of less than 500 picoseconds. This can be used to analyze materials or even make chemical reactions visible in ...

In the same way that a camera flash can ‘freeze’ rapidly moving objects, making them appear as if they are standing still in photos, extremely short laser pulses can help light up ultrafast processes, ...

Tightly focused XFEL pulses are directed at a sample made of copper or manganese. Any X-ray photons that the sample emits in the same forward direction as the input pulse hit a piece of ...

The controlled generation of single photons is an essential element of numerous quantum technology applications, such as ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona have discovered a way to freeze electrons that are mid-motion using the world’s fastest laser pulses in order to capture the action of molecules as they ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

If you want to photograph something very fast, you need a camera with a very short exposure time. The same principle applies everywhere in physics: for example, extremely short laser pulses are used ...