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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.
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News archive for Synchrotron:

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.

New Van Gogh pic discovered using German atom-smasher  -  Jul 31, 2008
Register,Today, the news furnishes us with a partial answer - you can use a synchrotron to see old paintings hidden beneath other paintings.

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

Detecting smallest contaminations on semiconductors with aid of ...  -  Jul 14, 2008
innovations report,...storage ring BESSY II in Berlin for the first time, together with external users, at selected measuring sites for the use of synchrotron radiation.

McGill professor joins leadership of national synchrotron research ...  -  Jul 10, 2008
WebWire (press release),Two of Canada’s leading innovators in physics have been elected to the leadership of Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLSI), Canada’s national synchrotron

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

Eli Lilly reaffirms $3 per share buyout offer for SGX Pharma  -  Aug 4, 2008
RTT News,...including improved access to the SGX's synchrotron beamline facility and SGX-CAT that enables X-ray crystallography and protein structure determination.

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

Zenobia Therapeutics Begins Operations as a Fragment Based Lead ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
GenomicsProteomics.com (press release),Contracts are in place with synchrotron facilities for high-throughput data collection and Zenobia's compound library is available for screening.

New imaging technique reveals hidden details of lost Van Gogh painting  -  Aug 4, 2008
HULIQ (press release),In the new study, the researchers used their new non-destructive technique, called Synchrotron Radiation-based X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Elemental Mapping,

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

Slippery Customer: A Greener Antiwear Additive For Engine Oils  -  Jul 23, 2008
Science Daily (press release)To resolve the issue, the researchers turned to NIST's soft X-ray beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) in Brookhaven,

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.

Brookhaven Lab Chemist Radoslav Adzic Receives the US Department ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
Chemie.de (press release),...of his career using various techniques, including atomic-level surface characterization with x-rays at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source.




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