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TRIUMF targets alpha therapy

External-beam radiation therapy is used routinely to treat many different types of cancerous tumours, delivering a targeted dose of radiation to cancer cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue a...

Reactors and accelerators join forces

Demand for medical isotopes requires reactor- and accelerator-based production methods.

SESAME announces call for proposals

SESAME, the pioneering synchrotron facility for the Middle East and neighbouring countries, located in Jordan, has announced its first call for proposals for experiments. A third-generation light sour...

New super-heavy elements find names

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced the provisional names of four new super-heavy elements that complete the seventh row of the periodic table. The researchers ...

MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope

Novel machine lattice produces brightest ever X-ray beams.

CERN experiment points to a cloudier pre-industrial climate

New results reported in two papers in Nature from the CLOUD experiment at CERN imply that the pre-industrial climate may have had brighter and more extensive clouds than previously thought, sharpening...

TPS exceeds design goal of 500 mA stored current

In December last year, the 3 GeV Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) of the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) stored 520 mA of electron current in its storage ring, and gave the world a ...

Science with a medical PET cyclotron

Résumé Faire de la recherche avec un cyclotron PET médical Au-delà de la production courante de radio-isotopes pour l’imagerie médicale, les cyclotrons PET compacts peuv...

Data sonification enters the biomedical field

Résumé La sonification des données fait son entrée dans le domaine biomédical La musique et les sciences de la vie ont beaucoup d’affinités : les deux disciplines f...