X-ray machine opens new frontier

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 brighter 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.

Culled: BBC News