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Synchrotron - An apparatus for imparting very high speeds to charged particles by means of a high-frequency electric field and a low-frequency magnetic field. [NABIR Bioremediation Glossary]
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Weird Oxygen Bonding Under Pressure Explained - 05 Aug 2008 Science Daily (press release)Using a newly developed synchrotron technique at HPCAT, the lab's synchrotron facility at Argonne National Laboratory, the researchers found that the
'Hidden' Van Gogh Painting Revealed - 05 Aug 2008 Photonics Online (press release),A new technique, based on synchrotron radiation induced X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, reveals this type of hidden painting. The techniques usually used
There's a Peasant Under My Van Gogh! - Jul 30, 2008 NewsweekSince scholars estimate that one-third of van Gogh’s paintings were covered over, the technology—called synchrotron radiation-based X-ray fluorescence
Light goes out on pioneer machine - Aug 4, 2008 BBC News,The pioneering Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) based at the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington, UK, will be switched off on Monday.
Lab behind iPod shuts after 28yrs - Aug 3, 2008 Mirror.co.uk,The Synchrotron Radiation Source has used its intense beam of electrons to explore everything from the taste of chocolate to aircraft safety since it opened
Architekti nakreslí synchrotron - Jul 14, 2008 Archiweb.cz,All materials shown on this web site are subjected to copyright (No.120/2000 Sb.). Any publication or distribution of the content is forbidden without a
Canadian Light Source gets new senior executives - Jul 30, 2008 Laboratory Products News,Prior to that, he was director of the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at the University of Bonn, where he was also responsible for technology transfer and
Apples And Pears Contain Pathways To 'Breathe' - Jul 10, 2008 Science Daily (press release)Researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have visualized them for the first time
World's highest highest-resolution holograms debut - Aug 4, 2008 EETimes.comUppsala University (Sweden), the University of Hamburg, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY, Germany), Arizona State University (Tempe),
Israeli leaves open option of Iran strike - Jul 30, 2008 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Using a thin beam of synchrotron X-rays generated by a particle accelerator, European scientists have reconstructed a portrait of a peasant woman painted by
Switching On First Neutrons at UK's ISIS Second Target Station - Aug 4, 2008 Science Daily (press release)Neutrons are produced at ISIS when bunches of protons travelling at 84% of the speed of light are transferred from the circular ISIS synchrotron accelerator
Scientists find pears ain't apples - Jul 13, 2008 ABC Science Online,To understand why pears spoil quicker than apples, Verboven and his team placed samples of each fruit in the path of a synchrotron beam.
Scientists produce best hologram yet - Aug 4, 2008 Sify,...high-resolution image numerically. Berkeley Lab, University of Hamburg and Dutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany, collaborated on the project.
Richard M. Wheeler to Retire from SUNY Cortland - Jul 23, 2008 ReadMedia (press release),Wheeler has focused his scholarship on ion-atom interactions, inner shell x-ray production cross-sections, x-ray fluorescence with synchrotron radiation,
Fermiscan can take a load off your chest - Jul 21, 2008 Daily Aztec,It was through his passion for this technology that Fermi was able to develop the technology and design of a synchrotron when he later came to conduct
Fangs, claws and jaws pack metal - Jul 18, 2008 Symmetry magazine,They detect the deposits with high-energy particle techniques, though not necessarily synchrotron radiation. Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) and
Full Text - Jul 17, 2008 Science Magazine (subscription)Only recently has it been shown that highly brilliant, high-energy x-ray synchrotron radiation can be used to analyze the local grain structure of a
Eli Lilly to acquire SGX Pharmaceuticals - Jul 9, 2008 Trading Markets (press release),The ongoing collaboration also provides Lilly with access to the SGX synchrotron beamline facility, SGX-Cat, which is a synchrotron facility enabling X-ray
CLS announces new board chair - Jul 11, 2008 StarPhoenix,..."I am very honoured to accept this leadership role for Canada's synchrotron," Loutfy said in a CLS news release. "The Canadian Light Source is a key driver
£156m boost for science - Jul 23, 2008 Oxford Mail,The largest grant, of £92.5m, will pay for 10 new beamlines at the Diamond Light Synchrotron, a 'supermicroscope' which allows scientists to examine the
Scientists discover pear spoilage issues - Jul 14, 2008 Freshinfo,The findings, published by Dr Pieter Verboven and his team from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
High hopes for new UK neutron source - Aug 1, 2008 Chemistry World,The ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, has launched a second target station for neutron beams which will allow
Massively parallel x-ray holography - Aug 2, 2008 ZDNetThe other hologram shown in the Berkeley Lab news release has been made at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany, in its FLASH facility
Mac prof to head research centre - Jul 10, 2008 Hamilton Spectator,CLSI is Canada's national synchrotron research facility. A synchrotron is a source of brilliant light used by scientists to view the microstructure of
Premier Defends Equalization Decision - Jul 15, 2008 650 CKOM News Talk Radio,He cites the clean coal project, the new bridge in Saskatoon, the Synchrotron, housing and a dialogue on nuclear energy as examples of what has been
Dubna Unites Nanotechnologies of CIS - Jul 11, 2008 Russia-InfoCenter,Second playground for physicists will be located in Moscow in Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Physics, which maintains the centre of synchrotron radiation.
Saskatchewan Drops Euqalization Court Challenge - Jul 10, 2008 Saskatoonhomepage.ca,10 million for the Synchrotron , 240 million for Carbon Capture and 27 million dollars for the Inter-Modal Facility in Regina ..among others.
Full Text - Jul 17, 2008 Science Magazine (subscription)A stress corrosion crack was grown through a volume of sensitized austenitic stainless steel mapped with DCT and observed in situ by synchrotron tomography.
A super-resolution x-ray microscope - Jul 18, 2008 ZDNetCERN’s Large Hadron Collider), which has excited the synchrotron community for its ability to count millions of single x-ray photons over a large area.
In their realm, outside Canada - Jul 28, 2008 The Gazette (Montreal),They subsequently married and both now work at Deutsches Elektron-Synchrotron (DESY), a research lab in Hamburg, Germany. As Côté explained it to me,
X-rays reveal hidden van Gogh - Jul 30, 2008 The Press AssociationA Vincent van Gogh portrait of a woman which was painted over and hidden by the artist has been revealed in extraordinary detail by experts using a new
Van Gogh gem uncovered - Aug 3, 2008 Boston Globe,European researchers have used a powerful new imaging technique -- Synchrotron Radiation-based X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Elemental Mapping -- to reveal with
Seven Mega-Science Projects Under Construction at CAS - Jul 31, 2008 AZoNano.com,The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF). Under the charge of CAS Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, the construction of the
Ingrain Introduces 3-D NanoXCT Imaging System - Jul 22, 2008 MarketWatchThe 3-D NanoXCT imaging device, which is the first of its kind to be used outside of the microchip industry and some of the synchrotron beams in the country
Museum wants to X-ray 83 Van Gogh's - Jul 30, 2008 Tracing Vincent,These new techniques, based on synchrotron radiation that induced X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, do not cause any damage to the paintings.
Frontier in Optics 2008 and Laser Science (FiO/LS) XXIV - Jul 30, 2008 Photonics.com,Highlights will include, FiO invited speakers who will touch on optics and instrumentation for next-generation x-ray synchrotron radiation,
Fruit 'lungs' explain why pears rot faster - Jul 15, 2008 New Scientist (subscription),...in Lueven grew a crop of apples and pears locally in Belgium and shipped it to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.
X-Rays Take Groundbreaking Virus Portrait - Jul 14, 2008 Discovery ChannelMiao and his colleagues worked around this limitation by using what are currently the most powerful X-rays on Earth, located at the SPring-8 synchrotron in
Observing strain in the grain - Jul 28, 2008 The Engineer,...tomography works, the next stage will be to make the technology more 'user friendly' so anyone can apply to use the technique at the synchrotron.
Apples beat pears on crunch issue - Jul 11, 2008 BBC News,Pieter Verboven's group put apples and pears inside the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, which produces an intense,
Industrial Research Ltd. - Jul 27, 2008 AZoNano.com,...properties of metal oxides, surface films, aluminium pitting, electrocatalysis, antifouling, nanofluidics, bionano, filophysics, synchrotron science.
Solar Stake-out To Improve Space Weather Forecasts - Jul 10, 2008 Science Daily (press release)...package were performed on high-accuracy beamlines at the NIST SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility, which are partially supported by NASA.
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