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Researchers adapt Nobel Prize-winning method to design new ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Researchers adapt Nobel Prize-winning method to design new ultra-powerful X-ray systems

An electron beam passes through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC’s LCLS-II X-ray laser. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Lab If scientists want to push the limits of an X-ray laser, for example, they may need to create new technology. But sometimes you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Instead, scientists are simply …

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Why did the FBI track Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Salvador Luria?

Why did the FBI track Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Salvador Luria?

Salvador Luria at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology around 1970.Credit: Science History Images/Alamy Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America Rena Selya MIT Press (2022) The microbiologist Salvador Luria was a man of firm political convictions. The day before his entry for the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he spoke with …

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