Month: August 2015
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For the first time ever: Protons accelerated in the plasma produced from hydrogen ice by a laser at the Institute of Plasma Physics CAS
High-energy protons find application in medicine for irradiation of tumors as well as in many other science and technology fields (such as proton radiography). Very efficient acceleration of protons occurs in the hot plasma produced by a high-power laser beam focused on a target containing hydrogen. The thicker the target and the more hydrogen in…
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Spain provides travel grants for journalists attending 100xCiencia Conference: Communicating Frontier Science
How do you communicate frontier science? This is the focus of a science communication meeting at La Palma, Canary Islands, in October – the first edition of the 100xCiencia Conference: Communicating Frontier Science. The conference is providing grants for about 30 students and young science journalists, myself included, from countries across Europe, including Belgium, Bulgaria,…
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Croatia’s Tanja Rudez wins the first European Science Writer of the Year award
Croatian science journalist, Tanja Rudez of Jutarnji List daily national newspaper, has won the first European Science Writer of the Year award, beating colleagues from the Netherlands and the UK, who came second and third. The award is run the by the Association of British Science writers, with support from Janssen Research and Development. The…
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Get ready for PCST Istanbul 2016 – Proposal Deadline Sept. 1
The biennial conference Public Communication Science and Technology PCST will zero in on the pros and cons of digitalization. What is the payoff for science and science communication? The oldies will remember: At the end of the last millennium PCST conferences were the only global event on the planet for science journalists. I’ll never forget…