''One of the great advantages of X-ray free-electron lasers like the one at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is that they allow researchers to determine the structure of biological molecules in natural environments. This is ...'

''Radiation damage spreads among close neighbors: A single soft x-ray can destroy a protein-sized molecule. A single x-ray can unravel an enormous molecule, physicists report in the March 17 issue of Physical Review Letters. Their findings could lead to ...'

''A new experimental method permits the X-ray analysis of amyloids, a class of large, filamentous biomolecules which are an important hallmark of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. An international team of researchers headed by DESY scientists ...'

''A team of researchers working in Japan has developed a method for allowing X-ray crystallography to work on molecular groups that have not first been crystallized. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they built small ...'

''One of the most urgently sought-after goals in modern science is the ability to observe the detailed dynamics of chemical reactions as they happen – that is, on the spatial scale of molecules, atoms, and electrons, and on the time scale of picoseconds or ...'

''Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the best tools for gaining insight into the structure and dynamics of molecules because nuclei in atoms within molecules will behave differently in a variety of chemical environments. Nuclei can be thought of as ...'

''Imaging the internal dynamics of excited atoms and molecules with high spatial resolution requires fast, energetic pulses of x rays. As Matthias Hoener and colleagues from an international collaboration report in Physical Review Letters, initial results ...'

''Ever since the 1985 discovery of buckminsterfullerene (formally known as C60), this molecule, with its perfect shape and high symmetry, has fascinated scientists, physicists, and chemists alike [1, 2, 3]. Similar to a soccer ball, the molecule consists ...'

''Conventional medical imaging devices such as x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound can detect abnormal tissue. Yet they provide little insight into whether a suspicious lesion may be malignant or benign, much less how best to treat the ...'