{"id":230394,"date":"2026-02-03T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/atoms-dont-sit-still-scientists-catch-them-roaming-before-x-ray-damage-strikes"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:34:00","slug":"atoms-dont-sit-still-scientists-catch-them-roaming-before-x-ray-damage-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/atoms-dont-sit-still-scientists-catch-them-roaming-before-x-ray-damage-strikes","title":{"rendered":"Atoms Don\u2019t Sit Still: Scientists Catch Them Roaming Before X-Ray Damage Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atoms-dont-sit-still-scientists-catch-them-roaming-before-x-ray-damage-strikes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing low-energy electrons after X-ray excitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing low-energy electrons after X-ray excitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230394","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}