New light source is Spain's biggest science facility.

The article reports on the new synchrotron light source called Alba, which is regarded to be a state-of-the-art science facility, in Spain. It notes that the first seven beamlines of Alba will be a mixture of soft and hard x-rays for studying crystallography and absorption. Among the noted specialized instruments that are planned for Alba are an instrument that will analyze the fluorescence's energy and direction and the cryogenic soft-x-ray microscope.