Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline “Ethics in the quantum age”. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Mauritz Kop assesses the ethical principles we must all adopt so that the application of quantum technologies is equitable
This year’s ASTRO annual meeting saw Siemens Healthineers and Varian focus on artificial intelligence (AI). In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Lisa-Marie Petzold from Siemens Healthineers explains how AI can support radiotherapy, for example, via the introduction of deep learning-based contouring of organs-at-risk. Varian’s Michelle Nystrom then describes how this autocontouring system integrates
In this short video with Elekta, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Francisco Nunez introduces ProKnow. The cloud-based ProKnow software is designed to improve quality in radiation therapy. It allows users to perform individual patient analysis, as well as data analysis across large populations of patients, to evaluate treatment outcomes and improve cancer care.
In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Siemens Healthineers’ Gabriel Haras introduces the company’s portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-based products. Such technologies support the entire care pathway for cancer patients, from screening and diagnostics to treatment and follow-up, including innovations such as AI-based autocontouring and generation of synthetic CT from an MRI scan for
As radiation therapy techniques continue to evolve, and the complexity of those treatments increases, quality assurance (QA) processes become more complex alongside. In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Elekta’s Heath Britt explains how the company is introducing a range of products to improve the QA workflow. Elekta’s portfolio, which includes machine QA and
In this short video, filmed at ASTRO 2021, Justin Turpin introduces the Elekta Unity MR-guided radiotherapy system. Elekta Unity provides real-time imaging whilst the gantry is rotating and the MLCs are moving, enabling treatments to be tailored according to changes in the patient’s tumour and surrounding anatomy. Turpin explains how new sequencing enables users to
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled to launch on 24 December. To mark the event, Physics World is publishing a series of blog posts on the telescope’s technological innovations and scientific missions. This post is the first in the series. Ready to fly: An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Courtesy:
I’ve Been Looking Everywhere for Me Missing Woman Unwittingly Joins Search Party Looking for Herself They had water. They suckled canteens,wiping their mouths with the backs of their wrists.When I say they, I mean for days all I sawwere walking lampposts. Then, them: a crowd in red shirts,“so as to be visible in shrubbery,” I
Retrospection about nuns is in. Claire Luchette‘s novel Agatha of Little Neon packs a suckerpunch beyond its bold pink cover. At first it is unassuming, as a woman in a habit can be. The story opens with four sisters who are being removed from their home near Buffalo to be put in charge of running
From searing critiques of colonialism to exhortations of Black joy; from meditations on art and grief to the origin story of American chattel slavery and its long-lasting legacy, the books on this year’s list demand to be read. They are vast and wide-ranging, yet deeply personal and profoundly reflective—a worthy gold standard in any year.
If there’s one thing to note about the tremendous story collections on this year’s list, it’s the global terrain these stories cover. There’s the wide-ranging geography—from China to Florida, Argentina to New Orleans—but there’s also the questions each story asks. Diving deep into queries of desire and hunger, memory and politics, and much more, each
An Obsessive Unpacks a Bewildering Insult Eric Ozawa Share article “Fish (in 13 sections)” by Eric Ozawa 1. Introduction:A fish. She called me a fish. I have no idea what she meant. 2. Description:I should say first that we had been fighting: indeed, there had been a dispute; let us leave it at that. She
By now, our fandom of translators should be no secret. We’ve spoken to contemporary translators about the politics of grammar and how to render a slender neck from Arabic poetry, about imperialism and swearing in Tamil and before that, we chopped it up with others about translating slang and living in a two-translator household. We couldn’t
When it comes to great novels, this year felt like an embarrassment of riches. The books collected here are ambitious—in intellect, in scope, in subject matter, and in size. Some are perfect encapsulations of the unique problems of our time, while others illuminate the human threads that connect us through time and space. Novelists often
Whether it’s disappearing ink or rejection erasure poems, The Commuter, our weekly magazine dedicated to the weird, wonky, and off-kilter, gives a bite-sized sample of dazzling work from writers willing to experiment. Receive a delightful literary amuse bouche in the form of poetry, prose, or graphic narrative every Monday morning by signing up for The
This week Recommended Reading published its 500th issue. For 500 Wednesdays in a row since May 23, 2012, we’ve shared extraordinary and innovative fiction from emerging and established writers with heartfelt, personal recommendations. The fiction we publish is not only formally masterful, it’s exciting. We are drawn to stories that usurp expectations: charismatic and troubled
In a year marked by epic highs and devastating lows, we’re taking a look back at our archives to see the essays, reading lists, and interviews that resonated the most with you, our readers. In a time of both hope and turmoil, you looked for reading lists to help you make sense of the world,