Nature News: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) has won approval to begin a €177-million (US$224-million) upgrade of its facility in Grenoble, France (pictured). On 25 November, the ESRF council, which represents 19 member states, approved funding for construction to begin on eight new beamlines for the facility. The new lines will deliver sharply focused beams of X-rays just tens of nanometres in diameter.