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Secrets of discovery

Interview with Kip Thorne, who predicted LIGO’s observation of gravitational waves.

Particle physics under the spotlight in Chicago

No result at ICHEP 2016 was more highly anticipated than the updates on the 750 GeV diphoton resonance hinted at in data from the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2015.

Proton therapy enters precision phase

Résumé Protonthérapie : l’ère de la précision La protonthérapie est une technique de radiothérapie innovante, qui peut traiter des tumeurs avec beaucoup plus d...

CERN to produce radioisotopes for health

Résumé Le CERN produira des radio-isotopes pour la médecine Le lien entre les communautés des accélérateurs et de la médecine remonte à presque 50 ans. Aujourd&...

Energetic protons boost BNL isotope production

Accelerator upgrades will help to meet the demand for strontium-82.

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...

CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge

A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2

Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments

The fact that we and the world around us are made of matter and only minimal amounts of antimatter is one of the fundamental puzzles in modern physics, motivating a variety of theoretical speculations...