Canadian Light Source looks ahead to major upgrades, milestones in 2025 [Video]

Research has wound down and staff at Canada’s only synchrotron are getting ready for the holidays.

But the new year promises to be an exciting one at the Canadian Light Source (CLS).

With more than a thousand different users coming through the doors from nine different provinces and 28 different countries in 2024, a variety of critical questions to intricate problems were answered on one of the 22 beamlines.

“We can look inside matter,” said Ingrid Pickering, chief science officer at CLS. “We can look inside materials in a way that you can’t do anywhere else in Canada. So, it’s incredibly valuable to so many different areas of research.”

The team at CLS focus on four strategic areas of study.

“We have advanced materials, we have environment, we have agriculture, and then we also have health,” she said. “And all of those resonate in many ways with many people.”

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