2013
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Current pledges put over 600 million people at risk of water scarcity
Our current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are projected to set the global mean temperature increase at around 3.5°C above pre-industrial levels, will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity. This is according to a new study published today, 13 September, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, which […]
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New materials research journals now open for submissions
We are pleased to announce that IOP Publishing’s (IOP) three newest materials research journals are now open for article submissions. Announced in July 2013 as part of a further expansion of IOP’s materials programme, the three journal websites have gone live today on iopscience.org and will now begin welcoming submissions from the community. As part […]
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Physics World celebrates anniversary with mind-boggling puzzles
Physics World is today celebrating 25 years as the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics (IOP) with a set of "fiendish physics-themed puzzles" to test even the brainiest of the magazine’s readers. Devised by staff at the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the various puzzles involve de-coding ciphers and solving logic problems before arriving […]
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IOP Publishing celebrates 2013 Nobel Laureates in Physics
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has today been announced in Sweden. This year’s laureates are François Englert and Peter Higgs for ‘the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by […]
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IOP Publishing unveils its first ebooks collection
IOP Publishing (IOP) is proud to unveil the first titles in the company’s new ebooks publishing programme at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (9–13 October). IOP announced its entrance into the ebook market and a new partnership with Morgan & Claypool Publishers (M&C) at the book fair in 2012. One year later and IOP is […]
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Changing the way referees are rewarded
IOP Publishing has introduced a new referee reward scheme as part of the company’s open access policy. The move has been designed to help recognise the contribution made by reviewers to the peer-review process. It will also benefit researchers who wish to make the final published version of their work immediately available through gold open […]
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Solar activity playing a minimal role in global warming, research suggests
Changes in solar activity have contributed no more than 10 per cent to global warming in the twentieth century, a new study has found. The findings, made by Professor Terry Sloan at the University of Lancaster and Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale at the University of Durham, find that neither changes in the activity of the […]
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Artificial heart to pump human waste into future robots
A new device capable of pumping human waste into the “engine room” of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers from Bristol. Modelled on the human heart, the artificial device incorporates smart materials called shape memory alloys and could be used to deliver human urine to future generations of EcoBot – […]
