Beauty and mystery—it is hard to imagine a more alluring combination, and this is precisely what we encounter when we observe phenomena in the nanoworld. But are we really sure that observations made ...

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) is the mainstay of multi-spectral imaging, enabling quantitative tissue characterization. In radiation oncology, cone-beam CT is used daily for image-guided and ...

To build light-based quantum technologies, scientists and engineers need the ability to generate and manipulate photons as individuals or a few at a time. To build such quantum photonic logic gates ...

A photon carrying an extraordinary amount of energy reached Earth after travelling more than 2 billion light-years. According ...

A new set of electron beam measurements puts the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the top of the list of the world’s synchrotron X-ray research facilities. The APS, a U.S. Department of Energy ...

A new era of science is ready to begin. On June 17, 2024, the Advanced Photon Source at National Laboratory delivered a landmark set of X-ray light beams as part of a comprehensive and complex upgrade ...

On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers ...