Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.physicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.ostina.org/content/view/4914/1292

Bridges is an online magazine published by the Office of Science and Technology at Austria’s embassy in Washington, DC. Among the articles in the current issue is a report by OST staffer Caroline Adenberger on North Korea’s first international university, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

The National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory provides a clearinghouse for collision cross sections, half-lives, and other nuclear data. The center also maintains a searchable database of papers drawn from 80 journals.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/radiation

Radiation therapy can be as scary to some people as the cancer it’s intended to treat. The National Cancer Institute has put together a guide, Radiation Therapy for Cancer: Questions and Answers, which explains the various kinds of radiation therapy and how they work.