Adrian ChoA brilliant new light shines in Grenoble, France, where officials at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility(ESRF) last week announced the reopening of their completely rebuilt x-ray source.
The ring-shaped machine, 844 meters around, generates x-ray beams 100 times brighter than its predecessor and 10 trillion times brighter than medical x-rays.
The intense radiation could open up new vistas in x-ray science, such as imaging whole organs in three dimensions while resolving individual cells.“The light is back at ESRF,” said the lab’s director general, Francesco Sette, at an 8 July online press conference.