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2014

  • Brain process takes paper shape

    A paper-based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China. The thin-film transistor (TFT) has been designed to replicate the junction between two neurons, known as a biological synapse, and could become a key component in the development of artificial neural networks, which […]

  • New Editor-in-Chief for Plasma Sources Science and Technology

    Professor Bill Graham has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Plasma Sources Science and Technology (PSST). Professor Graham works at Queen’s University, Belfast, in the School of Mathematics and Physics and Centre for Plasma Physics. He has published more than 150 articles in international refereed journals and over 250 conference proceedings and abstracts. His […]

  • IOP Publishing's COUNTER4 reports now available

    Following IOP Publishing’s (IOP) compliance with COUNTER’s version 4 release, customers can now view additional compliant usage reports. As well as existing journal reports, IOP customers can also run: Journal Report 1 GOA &emdash; successful Gold Open Access article requests by month and by journal Journal Report 2 &emdash full-text access denials by month, journal and […]

  • IOP Publishing teams up with Kudos to help authors raise visibility of their research

    IOP Publishing (IOP) is pleased to announce that we will be teaming up with Kudos in 2014 to offer our authors a new way to further raise the visibility of their research. As a result of this partnership, many of IOP’s authors will be invited to use Kudos’ tools to explain their work in “plain […]

  • Sea-level rise threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites

    Some of the world’s most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea-levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia. This is according to a new study, published today, 5 March, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, that has calculated the temperature increases at which the 720 […]

  • Leading open access material science journal changes copyright license

    The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) and IOP Publishing are delighted to announce that Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has adopted the Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0) for all articles published in the journal. This license gives users the right to reuse, repurpose and build upon a piece of work, even […]

  • Researchers map European climate change

    The majority of Europe will experience higher warming than the global average if surface temperatures rise to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new study published today. Under such a scenario, temperatures greater than the 2 °C global average will be experienced in Northern and Eastern Europe in winter and Southern Europe in […]

  • First books from IOP Concise PhysicsTM collection published

    IOP Publishing (IOP) and Morgan & Claypool have published the first books from their IOP Concise Physics collection. Defining and Measuring Nature – The make of all things Jeffrey H Williams Guide Through the Nanocarbon Jungle – Buckyballs, nanotubes, graphene and beyond David Tománek Together, the books cover two large and important subject areas – […]