![Image - These micrograph images show rod-shaped bacterial cells suspended in pure water. The dark rectangular shapes inside the cells correspond to naturally occurring crystals within the cells.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/bacteria-crystal-1.jpg?h=635b1aae&itok=Tp_hyDsy)
Illustration
X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.
![X-ray laser pulses probe water droplets like these to discover water’s hidden (and sometimes bizarre) properties.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/cover_nilsson_nomansland_final_landscape_highres_1200x768.jpg?h=67ab0815&itok=RgXSbKpu)
![Photo - Nicholas Sauter, middle, points to a monitor during an experiment this month at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/2014_064_0001_CRYSTAL-DATA-41.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=bTbAezrZ)
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Video
Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
![Backstory: Marc Messerschmidt, Staff Scientist](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/maxresdefault.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=75ouJchP)
![thin samples of copper, iron and titanium](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/Sample_cassette_CXI_IH2012.jpg?h=227042c5&itok=qUYmZa8V)
![Photo - Hasan Demirci, a visiting investigator from B...](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/130828-ribosome-research-takes-shape-slac-1-990.jpg.jpg?h=703a5545&itok=AhnrVsFF)