🌟 Just Released: Our Latest Monthly Newsletter! Dive into the newest edition — featuring standout science stories, announcements, upcoming events, career opportunities, featured publications, and more:

Featured #paper: "Pressurized organic electrodes enable practical and extreme batteries" by @CMEualberta @UAlberta_Eng @ualbertaScience @UAlberta. Beamline: BMIT. ️.

Researchers from @WesternU discovered that incorporating other metals reduces the amount of platinum that is required to produce energy, and results in a more stable catalyst for fuel cells. @westernuchem @westernuEng .Read more: Pictured: Ali Feizabadi

#BehindTheLight: As a CLS industrial scientist, Peter Blanchard helps companies to solve the problems they are facing. He works with mining companies to identify which pollutants are in their mining waste and how to contain them. Full story:

Featured #paper: "Atomic Layer Deposition-Modified Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries: Boosting Activity and Cycle Life" by @etsmtl @inrsciences. Beamline: HXMA. ️.

- Associate Scientist or Scientist (BMIT Beamlines).- Machine Director. Be part of "Discovery at the Speed of Light!" Apply for our open positions: . #jobalert #careers #hiring

Researchers from @UWaterloo have developed a new testing method for monitoring the effectiveness of remediation in removing selenium contamination from mining activities. #remediation #mining #selenium

#OnTheBeamlines: @usask @usaskArtSci Master’s student Melissa Houseman used the CLS to study the molecular reactions that occur at electrode surfaces during #electrocatalysis. Her work could help inform finding cleaner, cheaper ways to generate energy: 👈

New #paper: "Synchrotron X-ray imaging study on the mechanism of solids transfer to bitumen froth during oil sands flotation 2: Water entrainment" by @UAlberta @UAlberta_Eng @ualbertachem. Beamline: BMIT. ⬅️.

#MediaRelease: Researchers from @UofRegina @UofRScience gained new insights on how dinosaurs may have healed from injuries when they used CLS beamlines to examine a rib bone from everyone's favorite Tyrannosaurus rex #Scotty.

RT @GlobalRegina: GNM Regina: Researchers from @queensu have identified promising approach to prevent bacteria from binding to cells, using….

Researchers @usask used our SGM beamline to examine why a common agricultural byproduct is an effective adsorbent for clearing pharmaceutical pollutants from water. Read more: @usask_engr @usaskArtSci #agriculture #flax #cleanwater

Researchers from the University of British Columbia identified a new protein that helps an oral bacterium thrive in other locations around the body. Read the full story: @UBC @UBCChem @ubclifesciences @UBCMicroImmuno

Featured #paper: "Elucidating Cation Transport Properties in Nafion Membranes and Electrode Ionomer Network via X-ray Fluorescence Imaging" by @TorontoMet. Beamline: BioXAS. ⬅️.

At the CLS, we have to get machine parts from all over the world—you can't find them at the hardware store. But our QMSC beamline's insertion device is different: it was made at home in Saskatchewan. This device wiggles the electrons, making incredibly bright light. #AroundTheCLS

Using the CLS, researchers from @Carleton_U @ErthSciCarleton found that water released from #permafrost samples collected in western #Yukon contains unsafe levels of uranium, arsenic #climatechange #environment

Our tentative timeline remains on track, and we continue to anticipate reliable beam in the storage ring by late November 2025. Full details of the milestone steps and information about the #NewLinac project:

toward resuming normal operations. We have now started to configure the linac for beam commissioning, with the goal of producing a stable electron beam suitable for injection into the booster ring.

Over the past several weeks, we’ve made steady progress with commissioning our new linear accelerator (linac). We are thrilled to share that the first phase of the planned radiofrequency (RF) conditioning has been successfully completed – a major milestone on the path.

Featured #paper: "Investigating the limits of hard X-ray coherence length measurement employing Young’s double slit experiment" by @usask @usaskArtSci. Beamline: BXDS. ⬅️.

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