The week in physics: Medical imaging with antimatter; Where poetry meets physics

The week in physics: 11–15 August ADVERTISEMENT Need Talent? Accelerate Your Search with the Careers Issue The discounted print + online packages are now available for the highly anticipated November Careers issue of Physics Today. Designed to deliver results during the crucial hiring season, packages contain both print and digital tactics to help you accelerate your fall recruitment process across all sectors and subfields of the physical sciences. View Packages Medical imaging with antimatter Positron emission tomography's ability to image the body's biochemistry, not just its anatomy, makes it a powerful tool for detecting diseases. John Sunderland Where physics meets poetry Defying the often-perceived incompatibility between the two subjects, some physicists are using poetry to communicate science and to explore the human side of their work. Maia Chandler From the vault: February 1969 Analysis of musical‐instrument tones With computers we can not only analyse the sound of a musical instrument but also build up a synthesized copy of the sound. Comparison of real and synthetic tones tells which are the important parameters that lead to recognition of timbre. Jean‐Claude Risset and Max V. Mathews A radio telescope array takes shape with private funds At a time when federally supported science is in flux, the Deep Synoptic Array-2000 project in Nevada is moving toward construction with a combination of university and philanthropic support. Sarah Scoles Global renewable energy use continues to grow Tonya Gary From the August issue The pursuit of reliable earthquake forecasting The elusive nature of earthquakes makes forecasting notoriously difficult. Researchers are increasingly turning to AI to help tackle the challenge. S. Mostafa Mousavi, Camilla Cattania, and Gregory C. Beroza Post a Job Get Job Alerts Browse All Jobs Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Geophysics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) View Job Tenure Track Position—Physics California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA) View Job Associate Professor/Professor—Quantum Computing University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) View Job Machine Director Canadian Light Source (Saskatoon, Canada) View Job Director of the Ion Beam Laboratory University at Albany (Albany, NY) View Job Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Physics in Experimental Applied Physics Davidson College (Davidson, NC) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics. To manage your AIP email preferences and newsletter subscriptions, click here. Or unsubscribe from all AIP emails. © 2025 American Institute of Physics. Physics Today 1 Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740-3842 +1 301 209 3100