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Logic gate breaks speed record
New device operates at femtosecond time scales thanks to light-field control of real and virtual charge carriers
Advances in nuclear medicine technology reduce radiation exposure and shorten scan times
Researchers at the recent SNMMI Annual Meeting presented the latest developments in PET and SPECT instrumentation
Xanadu puts quantum advantage in the cloud
Toronto-based start-up’s programmable photonic device is accessible to the public and much faster than classical machines at Gaussian boson sampling
Celebrating the International Year of Glass
Glass: a transparent tool for a fairer planet
James Dacey describes how the 2022 International Year of Glass will celebrate the universality of this see-through super material
Blown away by the wonders of glass at Corning’s spectacular museum
Robert P Crease visits the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, which claims to house the largest collection of glass art and artefacts in the world
Research updates
Deep learning accelerates super-resolution photoacoustic imaging
Computational strategy enables high spatial and temporal resolution in both label-free photoacoustic microscopy and labelled photoacoustic tomography
Neural network generates lung ventilation images from CT scans
A convolutional neural network that produces ventilation images from breath-hold CT image pairs could improve lung radiotherapy
Gravitational waves from merging black-hole ‘atom’ could reveal new particles
Ionization of ultralight bosons could be seen by space-based detector
‘Nanotwinning’ produces stronger metals
New work sheds fresh light on structural changes during metal processing
Water harvesting gel works at low humidity levels
Material is low cost and easy to make, say researchers
Bringing time‑of‑flight quality to non‑TOF PET images
Deep learning models improve lesion detectability in images from PET scanners without time-of-flight capability
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