Accelerating Electrons by Slingshot

You load a rock into a small pouch, pull it back until the bands are stretched tightly, and let the rock fly. A few seconds later, a window shatters into a million pieces. Slingshots-5.Image Credit: Stephanie Sicore (CC BY 2.0) Slingshots are much more closely associated with troublemakers and target practice than cutting edge scientific research and medical treatments. However, research published last week describes how something called the "slingshot effect" (not the gravitational kind) could...