Monday 15 February 2016

New semiconducting material could lead to much faster electronics

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Engineers have discovered a new kind of 2-D semiconducting material for electronics that opens the door for much speedier computers and smartphones that also consume a lot less power.
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The ICTR-PHE medical conference kicks off

(Image: CERN)

The ICTR-PHE 2016 conference starts today in Geneva, Switzerland. Held every other year, it is an opportunity for specialists from a wide variety offields to meet and work together towards a common objective: the quest for innovative healthcare solutions, particularly in the fields of cancer therapy (hadron therapy and radiotherapy) and medical imaging.

Over five days, experts in detectors, particle accelerators and nuclear medicine, radiochemists, biologists and IT professionals will present their latest work, exchange ideas and share their knowledge and technologies with a view to advancing research in the field.

CERN is the co-organiser of the event, and some of the talks will be given by its experimental physicists who are involved in medical research. They will be joined by scientists from all over Europe, as well as from the United States, China and Japan, guaranteeing an exciting week – take a look at the programme – which you can follow each day on the conference blog

On Tuesday, 16 February at 6.30 p.m, Domenico Vicinanza, a physicist from the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, will give a public lecture entitled “Sound for Health – from Astronomy to Biomedical Sciences: Music and Sound as Tools for Scientific Investigation”. This event is not to be missed and you can follow it live via webcast at the link: http://webcast.web.cern.ch.


via CERN: Updates for the general public
http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/02/ictr-phe-medical-conference-kicks

Rotating black hole would not be crushed by the increasing gravity

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A first-ever computer simulation shows that, contrary to previous understandings, objects approaching a rotating black hole would not be crushed by the increasing gravity -- supporting some popular science fiction scenarios. The work also provides the first methodologies for computer simulations of rotating black holes.
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Caught in the act: Astronomers find a rare supernova 'impostor' in a nearby galaxy

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University of Washington astronomers have identified a rare type of supernova 'impostor' in a nearby galaxy, with implications for how scientists look at the short, complex lives of massive stars.
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