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CHESS-U Week 1
The CHESS-U upgrade is underway. Associate Director Ernie Fontes explains how the team is already making progress, and looking forward to bringing in some new equipment.
Recovering unrecognizably damaged 19th-century photographs with scanning x-ray fluorescence
Daguerreotypes, the earliest form of commercial photography, are made of silver-mercury image particles on silver-coated copper plates. These exquisitely detailed images can suffer from tarnish of the silver over time, obscuring the original photograph.
D-line going out with a bang!
During just the final half year of D-line operation in 2018, D-line users have published 19 articles in renowned journals on ex-situ and in-situ studies of soft materials.
The machinist: A maker finds his calling in upstate New York
Join John Buettler, a machinist, as he shares the passion he brings to the job of helping to construct the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
XES Workshop attracts remote participants from across the globe
In conjunction with the Users’ Meeting, CHESS also hosted the 2nd X-ray Emission Spectroscopic Methods Workshop.
Connecting with the community in a meaningful and impactful way
Even as CHESS’s Outreach and Education team refocuses its K12 efforts to concentrate on higher education, we haven’t abandoned the relationships we’ve built through a shared vision for equitable access to science in our community.
Particle accelerator upgrades keep Cornell competitive
ITHACA, NY (WSKG) – Students running around the track at Cornell University’s Charles F. Berman field might not realize that about five stories down there’s another track sending atoms circling – a particle accelerator. It was shut down this week for massive upgrades.
BioSAXS Essentials 8 workshop introduces state-of-the-art density program
In an era when our most detailed pictures of biomolecules come from frozen or crystalline samples, biological small angle X-ray solution scattering (BioSAXS) is more essential than ever as a tool for learning how molecules actually behave under realistic biological conditions in the liquid state.