{"id":145267,"date":"2010-01-06T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2009\/dec\/06-visual-science-the-ultimate-x-ray-generator"},"modified":"2010-01-06T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:05:00","slug":"visual-science-the-ultimate-x-ray-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/145267","title":{"rendered":"Visual Science: The Ultimate X-Ray Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/72.32.204.61\/2009\/dec\/06-visual-science-the-ultimate-x-ray-generator\/xrayopener.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Pictured<\/b>: A generator at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France powers what are known as \u201ckicker magnets,\u201d which help direct beams of high-energy electrons that whiz around the facility at high speeds. Other magnets wiggle the circulating particle beams, causing them to emit intense X-rays. ESRF\u2019s accelerator is the most powerful synchrotron light source in Europe. Researchers at the facility use this energetic radiation to probe the structures of diverse targets that include superstrong glass, fossils trapped in amber, and proteins produced by malaria parasites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/jw34wKS8p7g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: A generator at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France powers what are known as \u201ckicker magnets,\u201d which help direct beams of high-energy electrons that whiz around the facility at high speeds. Other magnets wiggle the circulating particle beams, causing them to emit intense X-rays. ESRF\u2019s accelerator is the most powerful synchrotron light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}