Rose Pastore reporting via Gizmodo: A new way of producing powerful X-ray beams — the brightest on Earth — is now making it possible to create 3D images of matter at astounding resolutions. This “Extremely Brilliant Source” officially opened last month at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France, and scientists are already using it to study the coronavirus behind covid-19….
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Powerful X-ray imaging reveals new details of dinosaur embryos in eggs
To look at dinosaur embryos entombed inside 200 million year old fossil eggs, scientists used powerful X-rays to create detailed images. They wanted to see how these embryos compared to those of modern-day dinosaur relatives. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-fossil-embryo-synchrotron-x-rays…
Bizarre Tully Monster fossil is still a mystery
Was the Tully Monster – which left behind one of the strangest fossils ever discovered – a vertebrate or an invertebrate? The mystery continues. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/tully-monster-mystery-fossil-invertebrate-vertebrate…
Scientists detect towering balloon-like feature near Milky Way’s center
It’s a huge bipolar structure, centered on the galactic center and near the central supermassive black hole. In that way, it’s like the Fermi Bubbles, found some years ago. But … there are differences. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/balloon-like-feature-near-milky-way-center…