#Synchrotron control room, Yerevan

Physics Institute, Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
In 1956, the Soviet physicist Artem Alikhanian began the development of the Armenian accelerator, known as #Arus. His aim was to construct the most powerful electron synchrotron in the world, capable of accelerating particles to nearly the speed of light around a closed loop.

#photography
#Russia
#science
#physics
#Armenia

We finally got around to writing an intro article on the "Synchrotron Light" book themes. The article is here
https://medium.com/p/b4f5ab3c98b6

#physics #synchrotron #books

Synchrotron light as a journey through physics

Our new book explores the surprisingly far-reaching applications of the science of synchrotron emission

Medium

Die RÅC Summer School 2026 (16.–23.08, Varberg, Schweden) ist offen für Bewerbungen. Der thematische Schwerpunkt ist „#Materialwissenschaften für #Nachhaltigkeit“. Es gibt bis zu 20 Vollstipendien […].

Diese Schule bietet
Einblicke und Kontakte in einem besonderen Rahmen und wird vom KFS für alle interessierten jungen Kolleg*innen empfohlen.

Die Bewerbungsfrist ist am 31. Mai 2026.

Weitere Infos: https://www.rac-school.org/rac2026

#Synchrotron #AcademicChatter #PhDLife

RÅC-2026

„Interferometric measurement of nuclear resonant phase shift with a nanoscale Young double waveguide“

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-026-01892-5

#DoppelSpalt #Mößbauer #Synchrotron #AcademicChatter

Interferometric measurement of nuclear resonant phase shift with a nanoscale Young double waveguide - Nature Photonics

A nanoscale X-ray double-waveguide interferometer is developed to measure the phase shift due to the 14.4-keV nuclear resonance of the Mössbauer isotope 57Fe. The phase shift is extracted from just a few single-photon interference measurements using Bayesian inference.

Nature

Le clitoris, enfin mis sur la carte

Vingt-huit ans.
C’est le temps qu’il aura fallu pour cartographier précisément le clitoris après l’organe masculin.
Une annonce scientifique ? Oui.
Mais surtout un révélateur.

Car derrière ce retard, il y a une vieille histoire : celle d’un corps féminin longtemps observé, souvent commenté, mais trop rarement étudié avec la même précision.
Pourquoi un organe dédié uniquement au plaisir a-t-il mis si longtemps à sortir du flou ?
Et que dit ce décalage de notre manière de transmettre — ou d’oublier — l’anatomie des femmes ?

https://librexpression.fr/le-clitoris-ou-le-long-retard-de-la-connaissance

(Crédits : Saravanan Narayanan/Pexels)

#afrique #amsterdam #clitoris #decouverte #excision #femme #france #histoire #librexpression #medecine #organe #penis #plaisir #reconstruction #science #synchrotron #voyage

"Critical point drying of brain tissue for X-ray phase-contrast imaging", Khan et al. 2026 (Schaefer's and Bosch's labs).
https://journals.iucr.org/s/issues/2026/03/00/wuz5001/index.html

"we propose to replace interstitial material by air to enhance X-ray phase contrast of the ultrastructural features. Critical point drying (CPD) of heavy-metal-stained mouse brain tissue produced samples with preserved ultrastructure, a nanofoam-like material that remains compatible with follow-up conventional resin embedding. Using two synchrotron-based setups [...] we found that CPD samples consistently showed 2–4× stronger phase-shift signal than samples embedded in resin."

#neuroscience #XNH #synchrotron

Critical point drying of brain tissue for X-ray phase-contrast imaging

X-ray phase contrast tomography can efficiently image brain tissue at subcellular resolution. Critical point drying allows a gentle replacement of interstitial material by air, enhancing X-ray phase contrast of the ultrastructural features.

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

From a colleague at Donostia / San Sebastián (Basque, Spain):

We have a fully funded predoctoral position at my group for a Chemist, a Physicist or related. The project is somehow flexible and can be directed more towards spectromicroscopy or spectroscopy:

https://dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join-us/x-rays-for-inorganic-biochemistry-laboratory

And a short postdoc for an X-ray spectroscopist (ideally the contract will be extended, but will depend on funding that is been requested). Ideally with X-ray or neutron scattering experience, but Absorption or other spectroscopies might be also interesting:

https://dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join-us/x-ray-spectroscopy-at-the-x-rays-for-inorganic-biochemistry-laboratory

#FediHire #XRay #Synchrotron #PostDoc #Physics #Chemistry

X-Rays for inorganic biochemistry laboratory

Donostia International Physics Center

#GutenMorgen, Ihr lieben Trötys!

Heute nochmal Klausureinsicht. VIel hatte ich ja gestern schon nachkorrigiert, und einige waren ja vergangene Woche schon zum kurzfristigen Termin da. Wird also vielleicht etwas ruhiger … haha!

Ansonsten habe ich Anträge aus Experimentierzeit an der NanoMAX zu begutachten, die drucke ich mir für die kommenden Zugfahrten aus. Ist etwas weniger als sonst: ungewöhnlich, weil dass Schweizer #Synchrotron gerade im Shutdown ist 🤔

Habt 1 wunderbaren Tag!