[Chasing Invisible Waves] Part 2, Episode 3: Gamma Rays and Atomic Nuclei — Light Emerging from the Stairs Inside the Nucleus

This is Kanso-san. In this third episode, we will talk about gamma rays.What is the difference between X-rays and gamma rays?

[Chasing Invisible Waves] Part 2, Episode 2: Why X-rays Pass Through the Body — Mechanisms of Absorption, CT, Crystals, and DNA

This is Kansoku-san. In this second episode, we will look at the two faces of X-rays: "transmission" and "diffraction".Why do ...
Hackaday

Testing The Wave-Particle Duality With Gamma Rays

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a radio wave, for example, behaving like a particle. The main evidence for a ...
BIOENGINEER

X-ray light on demand: Scientists tune X-ray frequencies continuously like a fretless guitar

Researchers at TU Wien and UC San Diego have created the first continuously tunable X-ray harmonic source, sliding smoothly ...
Phys.org

X-ray four-wave mixing captures elusive electron interactions inside atoms and molecules

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together. The technique, known as X-ray four-wave mixing, ...
Science Daily

Cosmic mystery deepens as astronomers find object flashing in both radio waves and X-rays

A team of international astronomers have discovered a new cosmic object emitting both radio waves and x-rays. Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in ...
Technology Networks

Attosecond Hard-X-Ray Pulses Could Show How Electrons Behave in Atoms

Discover how record-breaking intense X-ray pulses could help scientists to study how electrons behave in atoms and molecules.
Science Daily

How manipulating gravitational waves could reveal gravity’s quantum secrets

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By transferring minute amounts of energy between light and gravity, the interaction ...