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...when they are forced by the magnets to bend and change direction that the streams of subatomic particles - which travel the equivalent of 50 times to the sun and back each day - emit electromagnetic radiation, the precious synchrotron light. Selected into different wavelengths that are channeled down tubes called beam lines to laboratories set around the machine, that light will be used by researchers to examine processes and minute samples with a precision and at speeds unheard of in everyday labs...
...well as the increasing difficulty of taking biological samples across security-conscious international borders, are over for Australasian scientists now that they have a latest-generation synchrotron in their backyard. So are the frustrations of traveling to facilities in the U.S. or Europe for a few days of precious beam time, then flying home to wait months for another opportunity...
...driving up the Massachusetts Turnpike one evening last February when I knocked over a bottle of water. I grabbed for it, swerved inadvertently--and a few seconds later found myself blinking into the flashlight beam of a state trooper. "How much have you had to drink tonight, sir?" he demanded. Before I could help myself, I blurted out an answer that was surely a new one to him. "I haven't had a drink," I said indignantly, "since...
...Chris Beam and Nick Summers edit the blog IvyGate...
...just 7,500 light-years away, Eta Carinae is square in our cosmic ZIP code. An explosion--which could occur soon or just as easily not--would release deadly gamma radiation, but the finely focused beam in which the rays travel means the danger is likely to pass us by. The fireworks, meanwhile, would be "the best star show in the history of modern civilization," says astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. But after many months, the light would flicker out, and Eta Carinae would be no more. [This article consists of a complex diagram...