x-rays

Defects can make a material stronger or fail catastrophically. However, knowing how fast they travel helps researchers understand ruptures, structural failures, and precision manufacturing. Recently, scientists discovered that tiny linear…

An Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched by NASA on 9 December 2021 is a space-based observatory. Developed with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), it has three identical telescopes, each with an imaging X-ray detector sensitive…

Achromatic lenses produce sharp images in photography and optical microscopes, enabling different colors to have a common focal point. So far, however, they haven't been available for X-rays. A team of PSI scientists has changed that,…

Silver nanoparticles make a glue-free deformable mirror possible