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X-ray machine opens new frontier (BBC)
By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News
Researchers in Palo Alto in the US state of California have developed the most powerful X-ray laser in the world.
The Linac Coherent Light Source is being used to see how atoms and molecules move in living systems.
The machine is a billion times more intense than the previous generation of lasers.
Each X-ray pulse has as much power as the national grid of a large country, and a hundred are produced every second.
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The LCLS has been so successful that the Japanese government has built a similar system. Europe is constructing its own version in Hamburg, Germany.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31483781
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