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ETH researchers have managed to take three-​dimensional pictures of single nanoparticles using extremely short and strong X-​ray pulses. In the future this technique could even be used to make 3D- ...

For more than a century, X-Ray diffraction has been used to comprehend the structure of crystals or proteins; for example, the well-known double helix structure of DNA, which carries genetic information, was found in this way in 1952. Using this method, short-wavelength X-Ray beams are blasted at the object being studied.