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Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health

PA Environment Daily

The governor can urge the General Assembly to amend Act 13 and mandate greater setbacks for all operators.

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Trump’s Cuts Threaten NASA Plans for Astronauts on Mars

Scientific American

A budget shortfall NASA has wanted to put people on Mars for decades, but both technological and budget limitations mean that probably will not happen until the 2040s under current plans. The technology entrepreneur has long talked of colonizing the red planet, but with little consideration of societal ethics or international norms.

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Reinforcing the case for independent QA in the radiation oncology clinic

Physics World

In radiation therapy, patient safety starts and ends with independent QA, a comprehensive programme of machine, patient-specific and workflow checks for identifying – and mitigating – human and system errors in an expanding universe of complex treatment variables. Jeff Kapatoes, Sun Nuclear Corporation.

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User experience of MRIdian Linac commissioning and QA with the THALES 3D MR SCANNER

Physics World

The market introduction of the MR-Linac technology improves the patient care via the real-time imaging of the targeted PTVs. During the webinar you will also learn more about the THALES technology for commissioning and quality-assurance processes of conventional Linacs. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. While CMEs as large as the 2012 event are rare, lesser ones cause damage on Earth about once every three years.

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Finnish BNCT pioneers set their sights on clinical translation to the hospital campus

Physics World

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has approved the new facility for neutron-beam commissioning,” explains Liisa Porra, project manager of the work-in-progress facility and a medical physicist at Helsinki University Hospital. Figure 1: The key enabling technologies in Helsinki University Hospital’s BNCT facility.

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Life beyond the Nobel: Russell Hulse’s path from binary pulsar discoverer to plasma physicist

Physics World

Their findings were a stunning confirmation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and, not incidentally, the first evidence of gravitational radiation. His wife Jeanne, for her part, retired in 2020 from a long career in the pharmaceutical industry. Migration and the Nobel prize: more than one quarter of physics laureates are immigrants.

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