Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Object 1978.1073.01.1 is the first ...

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With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, effectively miniaturizing one of the most powerful tools in particle physics.

A hospital trust has become the first in the UK to use new technology to improve cancer treatment. Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, part of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), has ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

Cancer patients in southeast Oklahoma will now have the care they need closer to home after the opening of the Stephenson ...

It is fantastic news that we now have new cameras that can monitor the radiation dose which is given to cancer patients at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Our trust is the first in the country to use ...

THE basic principles of this type of accelerator and the details of a first model producing 0-5-MeV. electrons have already been described in Nature 1. The accelerator here described follows the same ...

New experiments at CERN by an international team have ruled out a potential source of intergalactic magnetic fields. The existence of such fields is invoked to explain why we do not observe secondary ...