Northern Bright Lights

Gn0M3KInG writes "CBC Canada is reporting that the largest Canadian science project in 30 years, a $174 million synchrotron is about to be fired up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada - duh!). This little device is capable of generating light millions of times brighter than the sun, and is the first of it's kind in North America. Looks like this could lead to some VERY cool research developments like creating better microchips, and watching living cells react to drugs (amongst others)."

Comments

Very cool.

[Anonymous Coward]

As noted you can nifty things with these like make movies of crystal structures deforming.

And FWIW it amounts to an x-ray laser.

Clips are already linked from the story page

[blacklite001]

You could also just click on the story link, and look to the right of the story, where there is a 1:53 video in both Quicktime and RealVideo formats, and a 2:22 RealAudio clip. There's also the synchrotron website linked on the right side.

Synchrotron list

[Mark of THE CITY]

Here's a page of links to various synchrotrons around the world:

http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/synchrotron_sources.h tm l