Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Satellites barely evade collision, stars are born in Van Gogh’s work, and scientists experiment with limoncello
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Tales of the 118 elements
Celebrating a Twitter project that links all the elements in the periodic table with anecdotes about their histories, uses and properties, in honour of the International Year of the Periodic Table
Explore exoplanets through multimedia tours, astronomy outreach through vibrations, and a professor gains knighthood
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Photonics startups rise to the healthcare challenge
Four of the six finalists in the Start-Up Challenge at Photonics West are pioneering light-based solutions for improved diagnosis and treatment
Doppler effect lights up future of self-driving cars
A frequency-modulated lidar system can detect the velocity of pedestrians and vehicles as well as their location
Mapping out the market for quantum technologies
A market evaluation by technology strategy company Tematys suggests that the quantum optics industry will be worth €1bn by 2028
Facebook sets challenge for future photonic chips
Performance and manufacturing improvements will be crucial to drive scalability in Facebook’s growing network of data centres
Biomedical optics in the spotlight
One of the flagship events at the BIOS conference highlights the innovations in biophotonics that are making a real difference in the clinic
Chemical celebration: the February 2019 issue of Physics World marks 150 years of the periodic table
Explore the history of the periodic table, the mysteries of 'Oumuamua and materials that can structure vehicles and power them too
A robot plays Jenga, physics enters the graphic novel, and London hosts a chemistry festival
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