From physicsworld.com:
Close to 8000 researchers, educators, and students converged on Dallas, Texas, for the March Meeting of the American Physical Society – the biggest gathering in the physics calendar bar none. If you weren't able to make it to Texas, however, all is not lost.
Just click here go to the physicsworld.com website, then "play" on the March Meeting video report for the headline take from some of the movers and shakers shaping the collective conversation at the Dallas Convention Center, including Linda Young of the Advanced Photon Source X-ray Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, who discusses x-ray lasers at the 05:31 mark in the video.
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