{"id":6127,"date":"2024-11-27T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.newat9.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/china-set-to-fire-up-x-ray-light-source\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:01:55","slug":"china-set-to-fire-up-x-ray-light-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.newat9.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/china-set-to-fire-up-x-ray-light-source\/","title":{"rendered":"China set to fire up X-ray light source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>China is set to switch on one of the most powerful sources of X-ray light in the world. The High Energy Photon Source near Beijing is essentially a circular track around which electrons will be beamed at incredibly high energies, creating laser-like X-ray beams that can then be used to capture images of materials at the atomic scale. <\/p>\n<p>Once the $657 million synchrotron gets its operating license, Chinese scientists hope to use the machine to study proteins and other tiny biological structures, like viruses. \u201cIt\u2019s like getting a major new telescope. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/china-poised-turn-one-world-s-most-powerful-sources-x-ray-light\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"no-referrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can see things that were not observable<\/a> before,\u201d a quantum materials scientist at MIT told Science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/11\/26\/2024\/china-set-to-fire-up-x-ray-light-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is set to switch on one of the most powerful sources of X-ray light in the world. 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