X-ray vision: the British Ambassador to Germany signs documents for the UK to join the European XFEL The UK has become a member state of the European XFEL , which is an X-ray free electron laser ...

Lots of top scientists and research ministers gathered together on Sept. 1 to mark the inauguration of the world’s strongest x-ray laser. The European XFEL (x-ray free electron laser) based in Hamburg ...

Researchers at European XFEL have developed a way to study liquid samples that are too dilute for many existing X-ray ...

A year after generating the first x-rays at the European XFEL, the third light source was switched on. By 2019, the third light source will feed x-rays into the Material Imaging and Dynamics (MID) and ...

The European XFEL, the biggest X-ray laser in the world, has reached the last major milestone before the official opening in September. The 3.4 km long facility, most of which is located in ...

Following the Long Installation and Maintenance Period, research at the world's largest X-ray laser will resume shortly. European XFEL today celebrated the restart of the world's largest X-ray laser ...

The European XFEL, the crème de la crème of X-ray radiation lasers currently existent in the world, is up and running and has successfully completed its first lasing. Scientists at the German research ...

An international collaboration led by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron or DESY, with participation from Arizona State University's Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, the Department ...

For more than eight years, the temperature inside the European XFEL electron accelerator was minus 271 degrees Celsius – colder than in space. Now, for the first time, the accelerator has been slowly ...

Soft border for soft X-rays: the physicist in the foreground is in the British sector of BreXFEL, while the other scientist is in Germany (Courtesy: European XFEL) A new beamline under construction at ...

The outlook for Hamburg-Bahrenfeld: frosty until April – very frosty, namely down to 2 Kelvin or minus 271 degrees Celsius. This is the temperature at which the accelerator section of the European ...

European XFEL, the biggest X-ray laser in the world, has generated its first X-ray laser light. The X-ray light has a wavelength of 0.8 nm -- about 500 times shorter than that of visible light. At ...