Monthly Archives: December 2013

Headway Made In Superconducting Cable Tech

Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems has made a recent breakthrough in a research project for the United States Navy. Research teams at CAPS, located in FSU’s Innovation Park, were successful with a project testing high-conductivity electrical cables … Continue reading

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Giant Magnet makes U Attractive to Brain Mapping Researchers

The world’s most powerful magnet for full-body imaging scans has arrived at the University of Minnesota, where it is expected to attract millions of dollars in research grants and play a significant role in a national project to map the … Continue reading

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Super-charged GE Healthcare MRI, And Its 42-ton Magnet, Finally Delivered To Medical College

After months of delivery delays caused in part by a worldwide shortage of helium, a new super-powered magnetic resonance machine has arrived at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and the core of the GE Healthcare unit has been hoisted into … Continue reading

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Bruker Corporation Announces Successful Installation Of World’s First Compact 900 MHz Actively Refrigerated Magnet For NMR Spectroscopy At University Of California, San Diego

Bruker Corporation today announced the successful installation of an Ascend(TM) Aeon 900 magnet, the world’s first compact, single-story NMR magnet with active refrigeration at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, CA. The Aeon technology integrates advanced … Continue reading

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Qatar Is World’s Top Helium Exporter With QR1.8bn New Plant

Qatar has become the world’s largest exporter and second largest producer of helium with the start-up of QR1.8bn Helium 2 Plant at Ras Laffan with a design capacity of 1.3bn standard cubic feet a year. The plant, which is the … Continue reading

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