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X-ray facility will offer “improvement comparable to moving from an incandescent bulb to a laser”
A top-notch research infrastructure in Southern Italy is about to come online, once it gets the green light from the public safety regulator.
The Star facility—which stands for Southern Europe Thomson Back-Scattering Source for Applied Research—will use high-energy X-rays to enable researchers to probe the properties of matter for disciplines including materials science, cultural heritage and biomedicine, as well as prototyping.