The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported a performance issue with the cooling system aboard GOES-17, a multibillion-dollar weather satellite launched in March. NOAA engineers encountered the issue during commissioning of the satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager instrument.

The US Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation have approved funding and the start of construction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, that will begin in the early 2020s to hunt for light dark matter particles. DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (CSA CSM) will play a...

Lake Shore Cryotronics (CSA CSM) is celebrating 50 years in business this year, and in May it recognized the people who helped it become a worldwide leader in precision measurement over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field conditions.

Young Professionals introduces outstanding young professionals (under 40 years of age) who are doing interesting things in cryogenics and superconductivity and who show promise of making a difference in their fields. Debuted in the Summer 2006 issue, the feature has presented many young persons whom we are proud to see...

Over the last 10 years, a multidisciplinary team from institutes around the world has worked to design, fabricate and assemble SPIRAL2, a new generation heavy ion superconducting linear accelerator (LINAC) at the Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL) facility in Caen, France.

More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsourse (SSRL) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology and new materials. And now, a multidisciplinary team has used the machine’s acceleratordriven X-rays to...