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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are working with medical researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center to develop a new imaging technology to guide proton therapy for cancer treatment. http://phys.org/news224495897.html Physics Fri, 13 May 2011 09:10:01 EST news224495897 (PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment led by a University of Alberta researcher, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, could dramatically change our concepts of basic physics, revolutionize our understanding of the Universe and could eventually lead to technologies in future generations that right now only exist in science fiction. http://phys.org/news188655693.html Physics Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:21 EST news188655693 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious properties of dark matter and perhaps even extra dimensions in the universe. http://phys.org/news188645541.html Physics Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:32:53 EST news188645541 Boosting the radiation dose given to prostate cancer patients to a level that cut tumor recurrence in half did not increase the severity of side effects reported by patients up to a decade later. The study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center researchers also found that patients characterized the impact of continuing side effects on their quality of life as considerably less bothersome than would be expected, based on earlier studies. The article appears in the March 17 cancer issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://phys.org/news187960662.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:18:15 EST news187960662 Proton beam radiation therapy shows encouraging results for patients with locally advanced sinonasal malignancies, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium. http://phys.org/news186330571.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:00:02 EST news186330571 (PhysOrg.com) -- At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that provide a better understanding of the internal structure of the proton, the basic building block of all nuclei. http://phys.org/news185652383.html Physics Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:08:20 EST news185652383 (PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. http://phys.org/news184590515.html Physics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:09:15 EST news184590515 Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led by Iowa State University's Mei Hong and published in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature. http://phys.org/news184422924.html Chemistry Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:10 EST news184422924 Investigators from the International Center for Biomedicine and the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Center for Bioinformatics of the Universidad de Talca, have discovered that two drugs, the benzimidazole derivatives lanzoprazole and astemizole, may be suitable for use as PET (positron emission tomography) radiotracers and enable imaging for the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease. The study is published in the current issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. http://phys.org/news183989929.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:30:01 EST news183989929 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists, led by University of Maryland astronomer Stacy McGaugh, has found that individual galactic objects have less ordinary matter, relative to dark matter, than does the Universe as a whole. http://phys.org/news182097187.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:50:01 EST news182097187 (PhysOrg.com) -- Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest science experiment. Finally. http://phys.org/news182012369.html Physics Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:10:01 EST news182012369 A comprehensive appraisal of the management and treatment options for low-risk prostate cancer found that the rates of survival and tumor recurrence are similar among the most common treatment approaches, although costs can vary considerably. The report was prepared by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a leader in comparative effectiveness research based at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment. http://phys.org/news181908772.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:40:04 EST news181908772 At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last weekend have set a new world record and brought to a close a successful first run for the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC has now been put into standby mode, and will restart in February 2010 following a short technical stop to prepare for higher energy collisions and the start of the main research programme. http://phys.org/news180358963.html Physics Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:48:05 EST news180358963 (PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an advanced superconducting material, which can produce magnetic fields strong enough to focus intense proton beams in the LHC's upgraded interaction regions. http://phys.org/news180185602.html Physics Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:50:01 EST news180185602 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week in the European Physical Journal C. http://phys.org/news180094677.html Physics Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:18:22 EST news180094677 New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest components of matter) in the world's largest particle (proton) accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). And he has big plans to involve his students in the information and discoveries being made by him and other scientists from around the world. http://phys.org/news179756929.html Physics Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:40:03 EST news179756929 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news179598457.html Physics Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:28:44 EST news179598457 (PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron collider since 2001. It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010. http://phys.org/news178781372.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:44:16 EST news178781372 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan. http://phys.org/news178300806.html Physics Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:01:48 EST news178300806 (AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. http://phys.org/news178198886.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:42:04 EST news178198886 (AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. http://phys.org/news178024871.html Physics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:21:52 EST news178024871 A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure. http://phys.org/news177787801.html Physics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:31:37 EST news177787801 The European Organization for Nuclear Research says it expects to restart the world's largest atom smasher by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. http://phys.org/news177700443.html Physics Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:14:20 EST news177700443 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that fat collection in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, are associated with certain decreased heart functions. The study, which appears on-line in Obesity, also found that measuring a person's body mass index (BMI) does not reliably predict the amount of undesired fat in and around these vital organs. http://phys.org/news177328586.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:20:48 EST news177328586 University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. http://phys.org/news177170607.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:04:59 EST news177170607 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first clinical study to evaluate the use of proton therapy for rare brain cancers in children younger than 3 years old. http://phys.org/news176997034.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:52:05 EST news176997034 Despite being highly effective and beneficial for many patients, unexpected consequences are emerging in patients who are prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for reflux diseases. Physicians are warned to monitor these effects and prescribe these medications carefully, according to a new commentary published in the November 2009 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. http://phys.org/news176403707.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:10:02 EST news176403707 Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, according to a first-of-its-kind study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago. The multi-institutional, randomized trial also shows that the high dose treatment is safe for these patients and causes no severe problems later with urinary or bowel functions. http://phys.org/news176400223.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:40:01 EST news176400223 Proton beam therapy can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and has minimal urinary and rectal side effects, according to a study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago. http://phys.org/news176400056.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:10:01 EST news176400056 During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008. http://phys.org/news175812230.html Physics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:44:21 EST news175812230