Spike in airborne radioactivity detected in Europe
German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there's no threat to human health.
Environment
Oct 5, 2017
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News tagged with radiation therapies
Targeted, high-energy cancer treatments get a supercomputing boost
Radiation therapy shoots high-energy particles into the body to destroy or damage cancer cells. Over the last century, the technologies used have constantly improved and it has become a highly effective way to treat cancer. ...
Computer Sciences
May 10, 2017
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Radiation that knocks electrons out and down, one after another
Researchers are investigating novel ways by which electrons are knocked out of matter. Their research could have implications for radiation therapy.
General Physics
Dec 7, 2016
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Titan targets tumors
Since lasers were first produced in the early 1960s, researchers have worked to apply laser technology from welding metal to surgeries, with laser technology advancing quickly through the last 50 years.
Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2016
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Computer simulator will improve radiation therapy for cancer patients
Using complex computational algorithms based on repeated sampling, a University of Arkansas graduate student helped spearhead a project to develop a computer simulator that provides customized electron beam tunings for radiation ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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World's oldest penguin undergoes cancer radiation
A toddler on Tuesday peered through thick glass as Tess – the world's oldest African penguin, representing an endangered species set to vanish in the child's lifetime – dove into her pool at the Pueblo Zoo. It was the ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2014
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Compact proton therapy for fight against cancer
The future face of modern-day anti-cancer therapy based on charged particles like protons could potentially involve using laser accelerators. However, these facilities will need to be reduced in terms of both size and cost ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 10, 2014
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Understanding DNA Repair and Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that plays a key role in copying DNA also plays a vital role in repairing breaks in it, UC Davis scientists have found. The work is helping researchers understand how cancer cells can resist radiation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2009
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Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia Commonwealth ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 7, 2009
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Promising cancer therapy advanced by chemical explanation
Radiation therapy: A chilling word that creates images of burn-injuries where the cancer killing ray went through the skin. For decades research hospitals have been investigating the alternative method Hadron therapy, or ...
Materials Science
Dec 14, 2015
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