Article - 14 Jan 2004
The structure of the proton is under the microscope at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia, where a series of...
Article - 8 Apr 2005
Scientists have investigated increasing platinum utilisation in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) by using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs). Chemical Vapour Deposition CVD and...
News - 20 Jul 2009
Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer
-- is a hot topic at this year's American
Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place...
News - 6 Apr 2016
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes, whose diameter measure almost eight-tenths of a nanometer, are capable of...
News - 9 Dec 2014
Gareth Hinds, Principal Research Scientist in the Electrochemistry Group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), was quoted in the Financial Times, speaking about a newly-discovered property of...
News - 15 Feb 2010
Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference
"atom smasher" at the U.S. Department
of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that...
News - 15 Feb 2010
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference
particle accelerator at the U.S.
Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first...
News - 2 Nov 2009
Laser-particle acceleration is an emerging area of physics that is expected to further significant future advances in modern cancer radiotherapy. An international team of physicists, which also...
News - 14 Nov 2008
Scientists have acquired more clues in the mystery of how the spin, or intrinsic angular momentum of a nucleon (proton or neutron), results from its constituent parts, quarks and gluons. Marco...
News - 10 Sep 2008
An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of
protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful
particle accelerator-the Large Hadron...