Conducting decay spectroscopy experiments at TRIUMF

An overview of the decay spectroscopy experiments being carried out by scientists led by Professor Corina Andreoiu from the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University. Professor Corina Andreoiu works in the Nuclear Structure Group in the Department of Chemistry...

Modelling battery gassing: Measuring the effects on cell ageing and safety

Dr Carlos Ziebert, leader of the group Batteries – Calorimetry and Safety, KIT, details the Modelling of Battery Gassing project, examining how calorimetry and thermodynamic modelling help to improve our understanding of battery gassing and the effects on cell ageing...

Caesium: A rare element with huge potential in new technologies

Donald Bubar, President and CEO of Avalon Advanced Materials Inc., examines the opportunities for caesium production in Canada and potential new technology applications. Caesium (or cesium) is a scarce and little known alkali element that is usually only found in...

The contribution of high purity materials to decarbonisation

ChemX Materials Ltd on supplying high purity materials to the energy transition and the decarbonisation markets. ChemX Materials Ltd (ASX:CMX) currently has three projects that are under development regarding high purity materials and decarbonisation efforts: The HiPurA® High Purity Alumina...

Analysing the computational complexities of CERN’s ALICE experiment

Professor Dr Udo Kebschull and Professor Dr Volker Lindenstruth, from Goethe-University and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, discuss the multifaceted technical requirements of the ALICE experiment at CERN. The ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is optimised...

Unearthing links between the climate crisis and societal inequalities in Niger

RSS Hydro Geoscientist & UAV Pilot Margherita Bruscolini discusses the links between the climate crisis and societal inequalities in Niger, affected by migration, gender, socio-economic differences, and security factors. Climate change and its impacts on people and the planet were...

Lithium Power International: Pioneering the lithium supply chain

Industry-leading energy company Lithium Power International (LPI) is advancing their Maricunga brine project in Chile, a significant enhancement to the lithium supply chain. Adversity often breeds innovation, and that is certainly the case with Lithium Power International’s Maricunga brine project...

Inside the upgraded ALICE nuclear physics experiment at CERN

Marielle Chartier, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool and member of the ALICE collaboration, explains how a fundamental perspective on the nuclei of atoms is beginning to emerge from new nuclear physics measurements at the Large Hadron...

Using neutrino detectors to study interactions inside the nucleus

Understanding what goes on inside a nucleus is critical to making precision measurements of neutrino properties but, by using neutrino detectors, researchers at the University of Minnesota are uncovering scientific mysteries, such as the interactions inside the nucleus. The atomic...

Using software technologies to enable spacecraft trajectory optimisation

Dr Ryne Beeson, Senior Scientist at CU Aerospace, shares new and enabling capabilities optimising the design of spacecraft trajectories to achieve mission objectives. The advent of new space technology, the greater coupling of space systems, and more frequent access to...


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