{"id":116284,"date":"2020-11-24T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/quantum-x-ray-microscope-ghost-images-molecules-using-entanglement"},"modified":"2020-11-24T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:22:29","slug":"quantum-x-ray-microscope-ghost-images-molecules-using-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/quantum-x-ray-microscope-ghost-images-molecules-using-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"Quantum X-ray microscope \u201cghost images\u201d molecules using entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-x-ray-microscope-ghost-images-molecules-using-entanglement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a strange new X-ray microscope that takes advantage of the spooky world of quantum physics to \u201cghost image\u201d biomolecules in high resolution but at a lower radiation dose.<\/p>\n<p>X-ray microscopes are useful tools for imaging samples in high resolution, but the radiation involved can damage sensitive samples such as viruses, bacteria and some cells. Reducing the radiation dose is one way around that problem, but unfortunately that also reduces the resolution of the image.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Brookhaven team has found a way to maintain higher resolution with a lower radiation dose \u2013 and all they had to do was tap into the quirks of quantum physics that boggled minds like Einstein\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a strange new X-ray microscope that takes advantage of the spooky world of quantum physics to \u201cghost image\u201d biomolecules in high resolution but at a lower radiation dose. X-ray microscopes are useful tools for imaging samples in high resolution, but the radiation involved can damage sensitive samples such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}