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19 January

| 19 January 2012

  • from NHK News
    18 January 2012
    GDE director visits ILC candidate site in Northern Japan. (in Japanese)
  • from Southeast European Times
    17 January 2012
    Serbia’s scientific community received a boost this month as the country became an associate member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
  • from DESY
    13 January 2012
    For the first time, the researchers have managed to employ a special form of magnetism for data storage purposes, called antiferromagnetism. Different from ferromagnetism, which is used in conventional hard drives, the spins of neighbouring atoms within antiferromagnetic material are oppositely aligned, rendering the material magnetically neutral on a bulk level. This means that antiferromagnetic atom rows can be spaced much more closely without magnetically interfering with each other. Thus, the scientist managed to pack bits only one nanometre apart.
  • from CNRS/IN2P3
    12 January 2012
    GUINEVERE is a reactor entirely composed of nuclear fuel, lead and a particle accelerator that controls the reactor. It is a demonstration model of an ADS (Accelerator Driven System).
  • from BBC News
    6 January 2012
    Another grant will go to Trinity Catholic School in Nottingham, where pupils will build their own atom smasher. They will construct a model linear particle accelerator and investigate particle collisions similar to those under way at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland.