Physics World March 2022
Inside story: creating a “Google Earth” of the human body
Like a Google Earth of the human body, the Human Organ Atlas is both simple and astonishing. Its goal is to create a freely accessible, online image bank of highly “zoomable” human organs, revealing everything from their biggest features (on the scale of centimetres and metres) all the way down to micro-scale structures. Jon Cartwright explains how the project, which uses synchrotron radiation, could provide the most detailed 3D views of real organs ever seen. Also this month: the life and times of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; the power of fusion; and the carbon cost of supercomputing.
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