Category: Societal Applications
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Improving Hospital Recovery: MARCHESE Builds a New Prototype
Monitoring vital signs is essential in hospitals worldwide. While contact-based devices usually pose no challenges, they can cause pain or be unusable in sensitive cases, such as with burn victims or newborns.
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Work underway at CERN test stand to adapt pre-injector accelerator technologies for medical and societal uses
A team from around Europe is working on projects linked to using compact particle accelerators for applications such as cancer therapy and art diagnostics
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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.
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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
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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.
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Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships
“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
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Big plans for Europe’s particle therapy scene!
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 therapy. The program led to the construction of two centres: CNAO in Pavia, Italy, and Med-Austron in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
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Rolf Kind and CERN establish strategic coopera7on in fusion technology research
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 / Germany, is working hard every day to make this dream come true in the hopefully not too distant future.
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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