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💡Can all-optical computing move from theory to reality?

SmarAct GmbH is developing platform technologies that could help make next-generation optical computing a practical proposition, with precision nanopositioning and motion control playing a critical role.

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Nanopositioning, customization and control: opening new frontiers in optical computing – Physics World SmarAct and Akhetonics have developed a test platform for next-generation optical processors

Radiation has been amplified by scattering it from a stationary electronic circuit that behaves as though it is rotating at an enormous rate. https://ow.ly/WUwW50ZxEvl

As well as being a human catastrophe, the Hiroshima fireball was a materials science laboratory.

New material was created in Hiroshima nuclear explosion – Physics World Rapid cooling locked in unusual crystal structure in silicon-rich metal alloy

This podcast features Yonatan Cohen, who is co-founder and chief technology officer of Quantum Machines.

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A new mechanism governing the geometric shapes of growing elastic sheets has been identified by a trio of physicists.

Topology affects the crumpling of growing elastic sheets – Physics World Discovery could lead to new metamaterials

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How women physicists in India are breaking down barriers and shaping the future – Physics World Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha describe their journeys as physicists in India

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Antonia Seymour, who is chief executive of IOP Publishing, talks about challenges and opportunities in scientific publishing.

How scholarly publishers are safeguarding trust in science – Physics World Antonia Seymour of IOP Publishing is our podcast guest

Visitors have been snapping up tickets fast to see the Bayeux Tapestry, which will be on show at the British Museum in London from September. This 68m-long embroidered cloth, which depicts the Norman invasion of England in 1066, left its home in France for the first time since it was created over 900 years ago. As Honor Powrie explains, this fragile, historic artwork was only able to make the journey thanks to conservators who’ve digitised it using non-invasive, physics-based techniques.

The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home – Physics World Honor Powrie celebrates the optical techniques that have digitized, restored and protected the Bayeux Tapestry