Read article: Applied physicist Arati Prabhakar becomes first female US science adviser
Prabhakar is also the first immigrant and person of colour to take up the role
Read article: South African robotic telescope to begin search for the afterglow of cosmic events
The BOOTES6 optical telescope will measure the brightness of transient sources when it starts up in mid-July
Read article: Deep-learning framework identifies regions of COVID-19 infection in lung scans
A neural network model localizes disease regions in lung scans of patients with COVID-19, despite being trained only on images of healthy patients
Read article: Electrocatalysis towards carbon neutrality
The IOP Publishing journal JPhys Energy, in partnership with Hiden Analytical, explores electrocatalysis towards carbon neutrality
Read article: AI and medical physics: test your knowledge in this trivia quiz
To mark Physics World’s first AI in Medical Physics Week, we’ve put together a short quiz – answers next week
Read article: Deep learning identifies head-on collisions in LHC data
Algorithm based on language translation could help pinpoint new physics at particle colliders
Read article: Machine learning could minimize quantum tunnelling in transistors
Study identifies lattice orientations that reduce unwanted effect
Read article: Bridging the knowledge gap on AI and machine-learning technologies
Medical physicists explored a range of education and training scenarios for AI and machine learning at last month’s ESTRO Annual Congress
Read article: A glassy solution to nuclear waste
Ancient glass is not just of interest to historians and archaeologists – it may also hold the key to understanding the durability of vitrified nuclear waste. Rachel Brazil investigates
Read article: 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
