The success of Queensgate, a supplier of high-precision piezo systems, shows that you don’t have to be a huge company to deliver the best in nanopositioning
Read article: Queensgate reaches the pinnacle of nanopositioning performance
Andrew Hirst and Veronica Benson explore how “emotional geography” – the reason many students look for jobs where they grew up or studied – impacts physics
Read article: There’s no place like home
A survey of eight European imaging facilities with extensive PET/MRI experience finds wide variations in daily quality control and assurance procedures
Read article: Quality control tests for PET/MRI vary widely in Europe
Reforestation of Europe could cut number of cyclones by as much as four-fifths and reduce heavy rainfall
Read article: Forests reduce cyclone intensity
Filaments could link several galaxies
Read article: Light from the cosmic web maps filaments across millions of light-years
Ian Randall reviews The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space by Peter Ward
Read article: To boldly go
Temporal technique could give quantum networks a boost
Read article: How to shape photons using a trapped atom
Finding common ground could help understand and adapt to Arctic climate change
Read article: Sharing scientific and indigenous knowledge brings new insights
Wheat yields could be hit by severe drought across half the world at once, driving up prices and making problems for global markets
Read article: Drought may hit half world’s wheat at once
The buzz surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) is hard to ignore. Huge data sets and large amounts of compute are the perfect match for deep learning, wowing us with algorithms that have beaten grandmasters at games of chess and Go. Today, with access to no more than a web browser, the benefits enabled by breakthroughs in […]
Read article: Artificial intelligence and cloud computing: the future for scientific research
