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Thanks to the installation of two canted undulators last November*, both G1 and G3 have recently achieved best-ever photon fluxes in the last several months, despite temporary operation at reduced current.

We often consider bystanders and spectators unimportant, however in chemical reactions they can make a difference, as shown in a recent paper by David Moore and coworkers [1], that just came out in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). 

Many ancient inscriptions on stones have been worn and weathered, and the original text is no longer visible. Scanning X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) imaging of chemical tracing elements on epigraphy has been used to significantly improve the legibility of heavily weathered and worn stone surfaces.

Xraise has been playing an active role in coordinating learning activities addressing the engineering design standards featured in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

A collaboration between Cornell and the Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) has found a new way to make physics irresistible, with “Physics Fair,” an original musical theater production.

The recent realization of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) has excited the imagination over what new measurements can be done with the unprecedented peak brightness and short time duration of the pulses.

With the availability of the Sample Environment Lab, CHESS staff scientist Detlef Smilgies, also an adjunct associate professor at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, took three aspiring chemical engineers under his wings.

About the Year of Light: On 20 December 2013, the UN General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015).