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X-rays

egg

Physics

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

When an egg is heated, its proteins unfold and form bonds with each other 鈥� an X-ray analysis has shown this happening on the micrometre scale over the first 160 seconds of cooking

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Space

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

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Cartoon of an x-ray

Physics

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

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Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

Technology

Working hypothesis: From Japanese phone numbers to Woody Harrelson

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

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war planes

Technology

The US wants to build an X-ray bomb to destroy chemical weapons

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Gundelach tubes

Physics

Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes

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Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Light from LIGO鈥檚 neutron star smashup just got even brighter

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Exploding lightbulb

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Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

Scientists looking for one thing sometimes stumble upon the unexpected. Here are some lucky breaks, from the cold depths of space to the heat of the bedroom

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Space

Mystery cosmic objects light up in X-ray then go dim in an hour

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Dental checks can’t verify the age of child asylum seekers

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Environment

New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto

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Physics

What the sun would look like if you had X-ray vision

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