It is millions of trillions of times brighter than
sunlight and a whopping 1,000 trillionth of a second, appropriately
called ‘instantaneous light’—the X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)
light that opens a new scientific paradigm. Combining it with AI,
an international research team has succeeded in filming and
restoring the 3-D structure of nanoparticles that share structural
similarities with viruses. With the fear of a new pandemic growing
around the world due to COVID-19, this discovery is attracting
attention among academic circles for imaging the structure of the
virus with both high accuracy and speed.
