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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.
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.
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.
