When treating cancer by radiation therapy it is always the goal to irradiate the tumour as much as possible and to spare the healthy tissue around it. For this a new type of radiation therapy called Volumetric Modulated ARC Therapy (VMAT) has been developed. During VMAT treatment the radiation machine …

Van kleur veranderende kunststoffen zijn kunststoffen die onder invloed van een verandering in de omgeving van kleur veranderen. Er zijn meerdere invloeden bekend, waaronder temperatuur (thermochromatisch), vocht (hydrochromatisch) en uv-straling (fotochromatisch)1. Dit klinkt wellicht futuristisch, …

The Pierre Auger group is studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are charged particles which permanently hit and penetrate the atmosphere of the Earth. They will at a certain moment collide with nuclei in the atmosphere, like nitrogen. The results of such an interaction are new particles, …