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Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes
Science Magazine Podcast
The APS Accelerator: A Synchrotron
The APS is a 1.1 kilometer long ring-shaped accelerator that's known technically as a storage ring. electrons go around the ring about 300,000 times per second because they're traveling at essentially light speed. The x-rays are sort of doing what you think of with an x-ray would do, where it is imaging different types of things and finding out what things look like or how is that being used. For example, the APS helped decipher the structure of COVID-19, the virus that causes CO VID-19,. It's been involved in determining 35,000 protein structures.
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