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DOI: 10.1063/1.3480072
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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.
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Charles Day, American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, Maryland 20740-3842, US .
