Scientists at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory wanted to better understand explosions caused by x-rays, and we got a cool short movie out of their efforts. They filmed droplets and jets of water being vaporized by the lab's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) -- the most powerful x-ray laser in the world. Claudiu Stan, one of those scientists, explained that "understanding the dynamics of these explosions will allow [them] to avoid their unwanted effects on samples." On the other hand, the data they gathered could also lead to new ways of using those explosions to trigger changes in their samples.