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Chemistry

Decades-old mystery about photosynthesis finally solved

It takes just four particles of light to jump-start photosynthesis in a plant’s cells, but the details of what exactly happens after the fourth photon is absorbed have eluded researchers – until now

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Space

Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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Humans

Egyptian boy mummy was buried with a ‘second heart’ made of gold

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The mummy of a boy digitally unwrapped in four stages
The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Physics

The world's ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

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Space

We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Space

Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed supernova

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letter from Queen Marie-Antoinette to Count de Fersen

Humans

Marie Antoinette's censored love letters have been read using X-rays

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid

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Space

The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

Astronomers have found a pair of enormous bubbles of X-rays, above and below the Milky Way, which were probably created by our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

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The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

Physics

Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation

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Technology

Working hypothesis: From Japanese phone numbers to Woody Harrelson

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Health

A ghostly trick produces X-ray images with a lower dose of radiation

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