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Describes the improvements done on the proton synchroton at Batavia, Illinois. Explanation of the acceleration process which the ring magnets of the synchroton provide; Factors considered in designing the accelerator; Techniques employed to solve the problem of radiation damage with the synchrotons and electron beam extraction.

The article presents several new briefs related to science and technology in the U. S. Bruno Rossi and a group of co-workers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had detected a cosmic ray particle with an energy of seven billion electron volts. The inertial guidance, a self-contained navigating system that does not require signal from the outside world, has successfully guided a B-29 across the U. S. The new proton synchrotron operation has gained an energy of 10 billion electron volts.

The article focuses on the costly laboratory equipment of huge companies in the U.S for science development. It states that General Electric Co. is finishing space stimulator worth six million dollars that would create an earth's atmosphere temperature and solar effect in space while Republic Aviation Corp. set up its test furnace that could sustain up to 3,000 Fahrenheit temperature. Moreover, U.S. government built an alternating gradient synchrotron worth 31 billion for the study of matter.