2013
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Physics World: 25 years and 25,000 fans
In the year of its 25th anniversary, Physics World is excited to celebrate another milestone today with 25,000 fans on Facebook. Last year, the Physics World team won “Best use of social media” at the SIPAwards, after introducing new and appealing content such as the “Image of the day” and weekly polls on Facebook. Published […]
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Savanna study highlights African fuelwood crisis
The dwindling reserves of fuelwood in Africa have been illuminated in a new study published today, which shows a bleak outlook for supplies across savannas in South Africa. Presenting their findings in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers have found that at current consumption levels in the communal areas of Lowveld, South Africa, reserves […]
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Editor of environmentalresearchweb awarded EGU Science Journalism Fellowship
Dr Liz Kalaugher, editor of IOP Publishing’s environmentalresearchweb, has won the European Geosciences Union’s Science Journalism Fellowship competition. Dr Kalaugher, who has been awarded €1500 to cover expenses for a trip to Finland, will report on fieldwork at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, a region where “the first effects of climate change are starting to bite,” […]
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IOP Publishing endorses KBART
IOP Publishing endorses the KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Recommended Practice, a joint NISO and UKSG initiative, as part of its commitment to supporting librarians. The initiative has established industry standards for the timely exchange of metadata between content providers and libraries in OpenURL knowledge bases. Through endorsing the KBART initiative, library professionals can […]
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New thesaurus created for the astronomy community
Joint news announcement from: The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, the American Astronomical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics John G. Wolbach library, IOP Publishing, and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus […]
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Brain activity study lends insight into schizophrenia
Magnetic fields produced by the naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain could potentially be used as an objective test for schizophrenia and help to better understand the disease, according to new research published today. A team of researchers from Plymouth and Spain have used the non-invasive magnetoencephalogram (MEG) technique to find two spectral features […]
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New Editor-in-Chief appointed for Nonlinearity
Professor Edgar Knobloch has been appointed as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of Nonlinearity, a journal jointly owned by the Institute of Physics and the London Mathematical Society and published by IOP Publishing. With a wealth of experience in the nonlinear community, Professor Knobloch currently holds the position of Professor of Physics at the University of California, […]
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February's Physics World: Doubt cast on Sir Bernard Lovell's 'brainwashing'
In this month’s edition of Physics World, science writer Richard Corfield casts doubt on the alleged “brainwashing” of the late British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War and explains how his trips beyond the Iron Curtain laid the foundations for the easing of geopolitical tensions between the […]
