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Implantable device delivers personalized photodynamic therapy
Researchers in the US, UK and South Korea have designed a wireless, implantable optoelectronic device that can effectively deliver photodynamic therapy (PDT) to cancer...
Energy can move from a colder region to a hotter one – but the second law of thermodynamics is safe
Can energy move from a colder to a hotter region in a material without violating the second law of thermodynamics? Yes, according to physicists...
Miniature heart replica could help optimize cardiac disease treatments
By combining a metamaterial cylinder with artificially grown heart tissue, researchers in the US have developed the miniPUMP – an on-chip device that closely...
Ukraine’s stained-glass heritage shines through
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast the Ukrainian glass artist and architect Oksana Kondratyeva talks about the long tradition of stained...
Monaco’s triggered adaptive workflow: a catalyst for clinical innovation in ART
Elekta’s treatment planning system Monaco enables the clinical team to successfully implement adaptive radiotherapy (ART) workflows on the Versa HD linac
Precision radiation-medicine specialist Elekta...
Scientists unveil Josephson diode
An international group of physicists has demonstrated that a very thin layer of quantum-mechanical material sandwiched between two pieces of superconductor can conduct electricity...
Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet
Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "The Earth through alien eyes". Members of the Institute...
Cutting the carbon footprint of supercomputing in scientific research
Science benefits enormously from supercomputing, which enables researchers to process vast amounts of data and conduct complex simulations. But these machines can be notorious...
Two radiotracers work better than one for cancer imaging
Researchers from University Hospital Cologne have reported in a proof-of-concept study that two PET/CT radiotracers – F-18 FDG and Ga-68 FAPI-46 – work better...
The Earth as an exoplanet, Liverpool’s lost accelerator and primordial black holes: the May 2022 issue of Physics World
It’s a classic trope of science fiction: aliens watching the Earth from a distance.
But what would an alien really see if they were studying...
Nanosurf presents DriveAFM and WaveMode at APS March Meeting 2022
Nanosurf is a Swiss company that designs, makes and sells atomic-force microscopes (AFMs), which image materials by scanning a cantilever across a sample. In...
Negative capacitance could make transistors more energy efficient
By exploiting a curious effect called negative capacitance, researchers have designed a transistor that requires a gate voltage about 30% lower than conventional designs....
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