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Science 5 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5407, pp. 1428 - 1429
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5407.1428b
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BIG SCIENCE:
Panel Backs Next-Generation Synchrotron

Robert F. Service

GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND--A key federal panel last week recommended continued research toward a "fourth-generation" synchrotron, a machine capable of creating x-ray pulses billions of times more intense than current designs. The instrument could revolutionize many fields of science, from figuring out protein structures to understanding the physics of materials, by providing more detailed snapshots and movies of the atomic structures of molecules and materials. It's unlikely to be built in the next decade, however.

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