Read article 'Get on board with EASITrain'
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes won his Nobel prize back in 1913 two years after the discovery of superconductivity; Georg Bednorz and Alexander Müller won theirs in 1987, just a year after discovering high-t...
Read article 'Europe enters the extreme X-ray era'
The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser will probe electronic, chemical and biological processes in unprecedented detail.
Read article 'Discovering diamonds'
Natural diamonds are old, almost as old as the planet itself. They mostly originated in the Earth’s mantle around 1 to 3.5 billion years ago and typically were brought to the surface during deep and...
Read article 'SESAME sees first beam'
Late in the evening of 12 January, a beam of electrons circulated for the first time in the SESAME light source in Jordan. Following the first single turn, the next steps will be to achieve multi-tur...
Read article 'GSI ions target irregular heartbeat'
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have demonstrated the feasibility of using carbon ions to treat cardiac arrhythmia, in which abnormal electrical p...
Read article 'Developing medical linacs for challenging regions'
Physicists, oncologists and industry experts are defining the design of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.
Read article 'CLOUD experiment sharpens climate predictions'
Future global climate projections have been put on more solid empirical ground, thanks to new measurements of the production rates of atmospheric aerosol particles by CERN’s Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor ...
Read article 'European XFEL enters commissioning phase'
On 6 October, commissioning began at the world’s largest X-ray laser: the European XFEL in Hamburg, Germany. The 3.4 km-long European XFEL will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes with a brilliance ...
Read article 'Crystal Clear celebrates 25 years of success'
Advanced scintillating materials have found their way into novel detectors for physics and medicine.
Read article '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...
