{"id":120056,"date":"2021-03-01T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/clocking-the-movement-of-electrons-inside-an-atom-down-to-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:23:44","slug":"clocking-the-movement-of-electrons-inside-an-atom-down-to-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/clocking-the-movement-of-electrons-inside-an-atom-down-to-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second","title":{"rendered":"Clocking the Movement of Electrons Inside an Atom \u2013 Down to a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clocking-the-movement-of-electrons-inside-an-atom-down-to-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists get dramatically better resolution at X-ray free-electron lasers with a new technique.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses from hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) can capture images of biological structures down to the atomic scale and shed light on the fastest processes in nature with a shutter speed of just one femtosecond, a millionth of a billionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>However, on these miniscule time scales, it is extremely difficult to synchronize the X-ray pulse that sparks a reaction in the sample with the follow-up pulse that observes the reaction. This problem, called timing jitter, is a major hurdle in performing these XFEL experiments with ever-better resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists get dramatically better resolution at X-ray free-electron lasers with a new technique. Intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses from hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) can capture images of biological structures down to the atomic scale and shed light on the fastest processes in nature with a shutter speed of just one femtosecond, a millionth of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120056","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=120056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}