Hackaday [Unofficial]Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us
Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us https://hackaday.com/2026/05/05/earthworms-dont-bio-accumulate-microplastics-so-there-may-be-hope-for-us/
#Science #CanadianLightSource #Microplastics #Synchrotron #Xraygenerator
#Science #CanadianLightSource #Microplastics #Synchrotron #Xraygenerator
earthling#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.
StereographsCanadian Light Source synchrotron. 2026. #Stereograph #Saskatchewan #Canada #synchrotron https://www.lightsource.ca/public/what-is-a-synchrotron.php
Jan HelebrantSwiss Light Source (SLS) #electron #synchrotron; Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI); #Villigen, #Switzerland
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96541566@N06/55231521883/
#landscape #birdsyeview #research #science
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96541566@N06/55231521883/
#landscape #birdsyeview #research #science
Daniel PellicciaWe finally got around to writing an intro article on the "Synchrotron Light" book themes. The article is here
https://medium.com/p/b4f5ab3c98b6
Markus OsterhoffDie 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
„Interferometric measurement of nuclear resonant phase shift with a nanoscale Young double waveguide“
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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.
Kimbo106Le 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
Albert Cardona"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."
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.