Without mechanical vibrations, a modern car wouldn’t get far. David R Andrews examines the role of sound and ultrasound in fuel injection and parking sensors
Read article: Good vibrations: acoustic technologies in cars
Designing equipment that meets stringent size and mass restrictions for use on aircraft brings extra challenges for instrument developers, as Tamara Clelford explains
Read article: The future of flying antennas
Cars that drive themselves may improve road safety, but they are vulnerable to hackers, as Stephen Ornes finds out
Read article: How to hack a self-driving car
Corey Gray on building and working at LIGO, inspiring the next generation of Indigenous physicists, and having a healthy work–life balance
Read article: In it for the long run
With electric cars set to enter the mainstream, Susan Curtis investigates the new charging solutions that will be needed
Read article: Charging ahead
Quality-assurance specialist CIRS has teamed up with GE Healthcare to commercialize an easy-to-use breast-equivalent phantom for contrast-enhanced spectral mammography
Read article: Simple, routine QA enhances contrast-enhanced mammography
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky explores the science behind some of the features in NASCAR that are designed to keep the drivers safe
Read article: NASCAR: the science of racing safely
Medical physicist and entrepreneur Maryellen Giger on how she established the use of AI in breast cancer imaging
Read article: Training a computer to hunt cancer
Rachel Brazil explores ways in which the physics community can best combat unscientific thinking, such as the belief the Earth is flat
Read article: Fighting flat-Earth theory
Keith Cooper investigates the discrepancies in values of the Hubble constant and asks what this might mean for cosmology
Read article: Finding a consistent constant
