2013
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Physica Scripta publishes proceedings from the Nobel Symposium
In the week that Peter Higgs and François Englert collect this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, the journal Physica Scripta has today published the proceedings from the Nobel Symposium on the “Physics of the Large Hadron Collider” which took place in Sweden earlier this year. The prestigious annual event brought together a range of speakers […]
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Top 10 physics breakthroughs for 2013 announced
The top 10 breakthroughs in physics in 2013, as judged by Physics World magazine, have been announced. The top spot in the list was taken by the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory for making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Physics World reported on IceCube's observations on 21 November: IceCube finds cosmic neutrinos at […]
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Traffic jams lend insight into emperor penguin huddle
Emperor penguins maintain the tight huddle that protects them from the harsh conditions of an Antarctic winter with stop-and-go movements like cars in a traffic jam, a new study has shown. By using a mathematical model that recreated the positions, movements and interactions of individual penguins in a huddle, researchers have revealed that an individual […]
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Cells from the eye are inkjet printed for the first time
A group of researchers from the UK have used inkjet printing technology to successfully print cells taken from the eye for the very first time. The breakthrough, which has been detailed in a paper published today, 18 December, in IOP Publishing’s journal Biofabrication, could lead to the production of artificial tissue grafts made from the […]
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Advisory Board member receives Brian Pippard Prize
Professor Robert Hadfield of the University of Glasgow and Advisory Board member of IOP Publishing’s Superconductor Science and Technology, is the winner of the 2013 Brian Pippard Prize. Professor Hadfield was considered by the Institute of Physics superconductivity group’s prize selection panel, alongside a range of other strong contenders for the prize, to have made […]
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November's Physics World: Can an oil bath solve the mysteries of the quantum world?
For the past eight years, two French researchers have been bouncing droplets around a vibrating oil bath and observing their unique behaviour. What sounds like a high-school experiment has in fact provided the first ever evidence that the strange features of the quantum world can be reproduced on a macroscopic scale. Now, many researchers are […]
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‘This month’s articles' policy
In January 2002, IOP Publishing (IOP) opened up access to many current articles for the first thirty days after publication under the heading of ‘This month’s articles’. This was introduced to coincide with the launch of our Electronic Journals platform (the predecessor of IOPscience) to help raise the visibility of new research and attract readers […]
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Water impurities key to an icicle's ripples
A group of physicists from Canada have been growing their own icicles in a lab in the hope of solving a mystery that has, up until now, continued to puzzle scientists. The presence of characteristic ripples along the surface of icicles, which remarkably have the same wavelength no matter how big the icicle or where […]
