Category: Societal Applications
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Boosting Europe’s Space Radiation Testing Capabilities
Boosting Europe’s Space Radiation Testing Capabilities The global space economy is today worth over $500 billion as state and private actors unlock more potential every year, with applications ranging from satellite communication, navigation, weather forecasting, environmental monitoring, as well as space-based research and exploration. But in order to send equipment – including electronics – to space,…
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White Rabbit Collaboration: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Industry Adoption
White Rabbit Collaboration: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Industry Adoption From eight founding partners to 18 members in just a year, the White Rabbit (WR) Collaboration has proven the interest of industry and public entities in joining forces to exploit, maintain and develop the open-source White Rabbit technology for the benefit of all. Developed at CERN…
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Detecting Marine Plastic Pollution with Edge AI Technology
Detecting Marine Plastic Pollution with Edge AI Technology Around eight to ten million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year. For context, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest Egyptian pyramid, weighs approximately six million tonnes. A global effort is underway to clean-up plastic from the world’s oceans, but finding and tracking…
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Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships
Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships Highlights from 2024 CERN’s knowledge transfer activities “2024 marked CERN’s 70th anniversary, giving CERN Member and Associate Member States and other stakeholders an opportunity to reflect upon the Organization’s achievements to date. It drew focus to how CERN has positively impacted the world, highlighting the virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation…
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Big plans for Europe’s particle therapy scene!
Big Plans for Europe’s Particle Therapy Scene! How CERN technologies are leading to possible Swiss and Baltic particle therapy centers. Reference: HeLICS Synchrotron – NIMMS Study In the late 1990’s CERN launched the Proton-Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS), a collaboration between CERN, TERA, and Med-Austron, aimed at designing synchrotron accelerators for both light-ion and proton…
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Rolf Kind and CERN establish strategic coopera7on in fusion technology research
Rolf Kind and CERN establish strategic cooperation in fusion technology research Team members from CERN and Rolf Kind GmbH meet at CERN – collaboration in action. A dream of mankind… unlimited energy without harming the environment. The team of Rolf Kind GmbH,based in the small town of Lindlar, around 40 km east of Cologne /…
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The Michelin Chefs of Radionuclides!
The Michelin Chefs of Radionuclides! How difficult to extract radionuclides are produced at CERN-MEDICIS By Amedeo Habsburg Did you know that 80% of restaurants fail within their first 5 years of operation? Well, the worlds of radionuclideproduction and restauration are both full of high pressure, hot spaces, and little margin for failure. This being said, with…
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Compact GaToroid – Further Developments in Streamlined Particle Therapy Gantries By: Amedeo Habsburg
Compact GaToroid – Further Developments in Streamlined Particle Therapy Gantries By Amedeo Habsburg As this newsletter has highlighted over the past year, interest in particle therapy is growing rapidly. You may remember our first article concerning the GaToroid gantry and its first demonstrator magnet. Well, the innovative team behind the technology has continued to push…
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Introducing STELLA
Introducing STELLA Shoot for the Stars and you may just find a Radiotherapy Facility By Amedeo Habsburg In 2020, of the 19.3 million new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide, nearly 70% of cancer deaths occurred in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) (Data source: GLOBOSCAN 2020). One of the technologies which can greatly reduce this number is radiotherapy LINACs (RT). Unfortunately, in LMICs…
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CAFEIN expanding its support to healthcare with yet another EU project: UMBRELLA!
CAFEIN expanding its support to healthcare with yet another EU project: UMBRELLA! How to manage strokes patients with AI and federated learning. 31st October 2024 Last quarter, this newsletter introduced CERN’s CAFEIN platform. No, CAFEIN is not a new CERN coffee delivery app, but more importantly, an AI platform enabling the training of AI models…