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Published online 15 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010315-12
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New SQUIDS on the block
Super-sensitive magnetic detectors are finding new applications from aeronautics to pathology.
SQUIDS are finding new applications in some unexpected places. SQUIDS, the ultra-sensitive magnetic field detectors currently used for brain scans, are now monitoring aircraft corrosion and spotting bacteria, the American Physical Society March Meeting heard this week in Seattle.
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