{"id":134525,"date":"2022-01-22T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/fastest-ever-study-of-how-electrons-respond-to-x-rays-performed"},"modified":"2022-01-22T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:23:40","slug":"fastest-ever-study-of-how-electrons-respond-to-x-rays-performed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/fastest-ever-study-of-how-electrons-respond-to-x-rays-performed","title":{"rendered":"Fastest-ever study of how electrons respond to X-rays performed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fastest-ever-study-of-how-electrons-respond-to-x-rays-performed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study of electron dynamics timed to millionths of a billionth of a second reveals the damage radiation can do on a molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>The first-of-its kind study used ultrafast X-ray <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> pulses to disrupt the electrons in a molecule of nitrous oxide and measure the resultant changes with unprecedented accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The work, published today in <i>Science<\/i>, was performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), Stanford, U.S. and was supported by a team of five scientists from Imperial College London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of electron dynamics timed to millionths of a billionth of a second reveals the damage radiation can do on a molecular level. The first-of-its kind study used ultrafast X-ray laser pulses to disrupt the electrons in a molecule of nitrous oxide and measure the resultant changes with unprecedented accuracy. The work, published today [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134525","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}