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Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes.   |
BusinessWeek
February 12, 2007
Nichola Saminather |
Radiation Therapy: New Rays Of Hope More than two-thirds of all cancer patients in the U.S. receive radiation treatments as part of their hospital care. New technology could greatly improve the prognosis. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Antimatter Persuaded to React with Matter Matter and antimatter usually destroy each other in a flash of energy and a spray of exotic particles when they meet. Yet the two have been coaxed into into a chemical reaction. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
CERN takes aim at proton and antiproton A Penning trap was used to determine that charge-to-mass ratio difference between a proton and antiproton |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Joseph Calamia |
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Sally Adee |
CERN to Start Up the Large Hadron Collider. Now Here's How It Plans to Stop It How the LHC stops a proton beam that can melt a half ton of copper |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
JR Minkel |
A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
Technology Research News
April 20, 2005 |
Spiral Laser Beam Demoed Researchers have found a way to generate helico-conical, or spiral-shaped light beams. The unusual-shaped beams are potentially useful in trapping and manipulating particles in biological and medical devices, including biochips. |
Chemistry World
May 3, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Particle Physics Gets Smaller Plans for a prototype of an unusually simple, small particle accelerator have been unveiled by the University of Manchester. |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Does Angels & Demons Get Antimatter Science Right? (Warning, Spoilers!) When Ron Howard took on Angels & Demons one of the first things he did was visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research where a portion of Dan Brown's 2000 novel takes place. But did his scientific research pay off? |
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It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Chemistry World
January 17, 2011
Laura Howes |
Nanoparticle divides to conquer Scientists have made a nanoparticle that breaks up into smaller units once it reaches its target, allowing it to penetrate deeper into tumour tissue and deliver treatment more effectively. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Sarah Houlton |
Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment. |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend This weekend, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will perform preliminary tests in the Large Hadron Collider's "big ring" in anticipation of a Sept. 10 start date. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Mark Wolverton |
New Space Engines May Trade Fuel For Photons Interplanetary travel may soon be powered by propulsion systems lifted from sci-fi novels, as researchers reach for faster, lighter space engines. |
Chemistry World
May 31, 2011
Manisha Lalloo |
Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions Researchers at the ESRF synchrotron at Grenoble, France, produced hard x-rays to look beneath the surface of materials made of lighter elements |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now Black holes won't eat anyone alive, particles won't be discovered and, most important, the action will happen off-camera. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
Popular Mechanics
June 16, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Brighter Than Thou: Brookhaven Lab's Newest Particle Accelerator Yesterday, dignitaries gathered at Brookhaven National Laboratory to celebrate the official groundbreaking of a science lab that promises to produce beams of light small enough to aim at resolutions of one nanometer. |
Chemistry World
August 31, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Smallpox vaccine virus puts cancer in its sights The results of a human cancer therapy trial show for the first time that tumors can be targeted and infected by engineered viruses, without damage to surrounding tissues. |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
The LHC Hits 2.36 Trillion Electron Volts--But What Does it Mean? After more than a year of inactivity the Large Hadron Collider, located 300 feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, is finally up and firing on all its superconducting magnets. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Laser treatment for late-stage cancer Scientists from China, the US and Peru claim to have successfully treated late-stage breast cancer patients using laser immunotherapy to stimulate patients' own immune systems to fight the cancer. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2010
Andy Extance |
Balloon model bursts battery charge gap Over-simplifying chemical processes occurring in batteries has obscured an opportunity to improve energy efficiency, according to Slovenian and German scientists. |
Chemistry World
August 11, 2014
Hayley Simon |
Supermarket scales for the microscopic world A new method for weighing the dry biomass of individual biological particles has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2007
Michael Gross |
Nano-Clots Target Tumours Researchers have created nanoparticles that form clots within the blood vessels of tumors. They hope that with further improvements these could be used either to starve tumors or to target them with cytotoxic drugs. |
Chemistry World
March 7, 2006
Jon Evans |
Brownian motion slips into reverse An electrical device for suppressing Brownian motion has been used to trap proteins, viruses and semiconductor nanocrystals. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2008
John Bonner |
Fireflies make light work of tumours Cancer researchers can see how effective new chemotherapy drugs are at destroying tumours by using the light that causes fireflies to glow in the dark. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2013
Tim Wogan |
Brighter future for cancer detection with polymer probe A new 'smart' polymer that is extremely sensitive to pH can highlight tumors with exceptional accuracy. |
Wired
July 2001 |
Electric Word Freeze-O-Matic... Liquid Audio... Welcome To The Cubicle Dome... Flesh For Fantasy... Beam Therapy... Bugs That Scale... Going With The Flow... |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Willie D. Jones |
A Fusion Thruster for Space Travel Clean, highly energetic reaction delivers a lot of drive from a drop of fuel. |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2006
Tom Westgate |
Radioactive Scorpion Venom Stings Brain Tumours Scorpion venom carries a nasty sting for brain tumour cells. A peptide based on chlorotoxin, found in the venom of the Giant Yellow Israeli Scorpion, has been used to target glioma, a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Proton Joins Elite Club of Cellular Messengers Researchers have discovered a new chemical that carries messages rapidly between cells - the first for more than 20 years. But unlike conventional signalling molecules, this is a far simpler chemical entity: it is the humble proton. |
Chemistry World
June 7, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride. |
Chemistry World
December 24, 2013 |
Season's greetings from Chemistry World Frosty, here, stands 30 micrometers tall and is made out of balls of tin etched using an ion beam. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers. |
Chemistry World
October 13, 2010
James Urquhart |
Aerosol theory solidifies An international team of researchers has found that atmospheric aerosol particles long thought to be liquid can in fact be amorphous solids. The discovery could improve atmospheric models and climate predictions. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Sally Adee |
Powering the Large Hadron Collider When the LHC starts up tomorrow, it will draw twice the power of nearby Geneva |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2006
Michael Gross |
Iron Chelates Beat Cancer Cancer cells need more iron than normal body cells to sustain their abnormally rapid growth. Researchers have now identified one particularly potent chelate complex that helps deplete tumors of iron. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005 |
The Weight of the World The 7000-ton Atlas detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the centerpiece of the biggest particle physics experiment ever undertaken. |
