Can state-of-the-art linacs boost the uptake of 4D-CBCT in radiotherapy?
Researchers evaluate how the rapid gantry rotations of new linear accelerators affect the 4D cone-beam CT images used to guide radiotherapy…
Partially submerged objects experience more drag than expected
Hydrophobic coating increases fluid forces …
Cement-based supercapacitor makes a novel energy storage system
New device could be incorporated into the concrete foundation of a building…
Evolution may explain values of the fundamental constants
Proposal springs from an analysis of constraints imposed by life's fluid motion…
Jet of frozen hydrogen provides a renewable target for laser-accelerated protons
Cryogenic hydrogen jet targets move a step toward laser-accelerated ion beams for therapeutic purposes…
Physicists measure the electron electric dipole moment to unprecedented precision
Measurement calls into question theories beyond the Standard Model…
Mimi’s Rainbow Adventure
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Machine learning brings sharpness and colour to thermal images
HADAR system could be used by self-driving cars…
Binary-star study favours modified gravity over dark matter
Not everyone agrees that dark matter’s days are numbered…
Daytime polarization patterns point the way to True North
New technique makes it possible to locate the north celestial pole without computing the Sun’s position or using navigation aids…
Nuclear spin affects biological processes involving oxygen
Observations could give NMR studies a boost…
Projectile fusion reactor could generate much-needed medical isotopes
First Light Fusion is developing a low-cost inertial fusion power plant that could also be used to generate a range of essential medical isotopes…