Particle therapy experts came together to examine how the unique properties of laser-driven beams could revolutionize particle therapy. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/a-glimpse-...
Mulugeta Bekele was awarded the 2012 Sakharov prize from the American Physical Society for keeping physics in Ethiopia alive during the military rule of the 1970s and 1980s. Robert P Crease tells the story of a remarkable physicist. π§ͺβοΈ
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If you shuffle a deck of cards and then hide most of the labels on the cards, no-one will know what permutations you made. But in the #quantum world, this intuition fails in surprising ways, hinting at deep links between information, symmetry and computation. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
A new type of axion search has produced the tightest constraint yet on their interactions with normal matter. Using a network of #quantum sensors, physicists narrowed the possible values of axion-nucleon coupling below limits set by astrophysical observations. βοΈπ§ͺπ physicsworld.com/a/long-dista...
Would you fancy stepping into a nuclear-powered car? Thankfully early prototypes never got past the drawing board, but nuclear-powered transport has proved quite a success at sea and in space . Honor Powrie wonders where nuclear vehicles will go next. π§ͺβοΈ
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Matin Durrani reports from the Careers in Quantum event at the University of Bristol, revealing the main messages for those who want to join the burgeoning quantum-tech sector. π§ͺβοΈ
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I occasionally think about this sort of thing: how could we preserve shreds of who we are and what we love for future generations even if some global disaster strikes? This is pretty cool. (Put full copies of Wikipedia and Project Gutenburg on there, caches around the worldβ¦) Needs instructions tho!
By using ultrashort, intense laser pulses to βwriteβ data units called phase voxels into glass chips, Microsoft says it has created a medium that could store 4.8TB of data for >10k years β a span that exceeds the age of historyβs oldest surviving written records. π§ͺβοΈπ‘ physicsworld.com/a/laser-writ...
Metamaterial-based RF antennas increase signal strength from target tissue, improve MR image sharpness and enable faster data acquisition. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/metamateri...
βSurround sound for biological cells,β is Impulsonics' solution to the βunsticking problemβ in biomedical science. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/Qp6n50YpF9Q
Quantum-entangled sensors placed over a kilometre apart could allow interferometric measurements of optical light with single photon sensitivity, say physicists. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/9EGZ50YoXKG
The Earthβs magnetic poles have reversed 540 times over the past 170 million years. Usually, reversals take ~10k years, but new evidence points to much slower reversals deep in Earth's geophysical past, with implications for our climate and evolutionary history. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/ancient-re...
Budgettβs beautiful artworks really made me think about quantum physics. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/iz4o50Yo8Fi
Early Career Award winner AurΓ©lie Hourlier-Fargette chats about her interdisciplinary work on bubble assemblies and foam-based materials. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/bubbles-fo...
Fancy a shot of vodka from Chernobyl? This podcast features an environmental physicist who has made many visits to the abandoned nuclear plant. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/XLzL50YmUFn
Research opens the door to controlling a materialβs properties by modifying its electromagnetic environment. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/2Enw50YmTaU
In this podcast LHCb's Tim Gershon responds to the UK government's defunding of the upgrade to the CERN experiment. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/F8Fs50YmrOy
Scientists @qutech.bsky.social and @icmm-csic.bsky.social have succeeded in reading out the parity of a system of Majorana zero modes β an important step towards making these protected qubits a viable #quantum computing platform. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/read-out-o...
Researchers in China have distributed device-independent #quantum cryptographic keys over city-scale distances for the first time β a significant improvement compared to the previous record of a few hundred metres. π§ͺβοΈ π‘ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-se...
Medical physicist Todd McNutt discusses the benefits that the Plan AI tool brings to radiotherapy patients and cancer treatment centres. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/todd-mcnut...
Scientists have used visible light to both image and manipulate the domains of a chiral antiferromagnet. By βpaintingβ complex patterns onto the material, they showed it is possible to control domain formation and dynamics. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/visible-li...
A new journal from IOP Publishing will publish high-quality research that advances personalized health through innovations in medical sensors, imaging and the computational methods that connect them. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/new-journa...
Studying physics and international relations stands Eileen Gu in good stead for Olympic challenges. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/wfiY50YiZHS
This is a cool idea, and the use case - on board ships - avoids the big problems with wave energy (maintenence and power take-off). But we still need wave energy generators that can work out at sea.
A new way of extracting energy from ocean waves couples a gyroscope to an electrical generator. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/k8mQ50YiKcE
A team headed up at TU Wien has set the Guinness World Record for creating the worldβs smallest QR code, which is so tiny it can only be read out using an electron microscope. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/worlds-sma...
Developing quantum information systems requires the cooperation of academic researchers, national laboratories and industry, explains Bert de Jong. π§ͺβοΈ ow.ly/CcOZ50Yi9LB
A newly identified metallic material called ΞΈ-TaN conducts heat nearly three times better than copper. With a thermal conductivity comparable to low-grade diamond, it breaks a record on heat transport in metals that had held for more than 100 years. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/metallic-m...
A novel biomaterial based on chitin, the second most abundant natural polymer on Earth, increases its strength when wet, while maintaining its natural biodegradability. π§ͺβοΈ physicsworld.com/a/nickel-enh...
Electronics made from certain atomically thin materials can survive harsh radiation environments up to 100 times longer than traditional silicon-based devices. This could bring significant benefits for spacecraft, which are prone to damage from cosmic radiation. π§ͺβοΈπ physicsworld.com/a/2d-materia...
