PLATON replaces millions of detectors with one light block, rebuilding particle tracks in 3D
A light-field camera, photon sensors, and AI could match top detectors and scale faster, with potential impact on PET scans.

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A light-field camera, photon sensors, and AI could match top detectors and scale faster, with potential impact on PET scans.
A long-running debate over symbolic vs practical burial weapons gets a new answer from bones, not wishful thinking.
A study of six Middle Kingdom royal mummies links arm and hand loading to habitual weapon use, not symbolism.
Muscle-attachment scans suggest archery or dagger handling for royals in the Middle Kingdom, yet specialists flag missing comparisons.
A new engineered-bacteria material could change the economics and regulation of single-use plastic waste within days.
A rare comeback signals better river health than expected, but it also raises new questions for regulators and managers.
The signal is helium escaping into space, tightening the odds that LHS 1140b could sustain conditions relevant to life.
The molecule is real, the chemistry is tricky, and it changes how we think about life's building blocks in space.
Nature reports wearable sensors on the face that stay out of sight, while still capturing measurable brain activity signals.
Decision-makers get a practical read on how long this extreme heat has lasted and what easing could realistically look like.
The 69th country to join a peace-and-safety framework, Serbia adds Apollo-era credibility and new payload possibilities.
Executives tracking public health risk, insurance claims, or air-quality rules need the fast physics behind the eerie color.