2017
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Celebrate the end of Saturn mission with a free ebook - The Ringed Planet
Today, Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn, and end with a crash its 13-year mission delving into the mysteries of the ringed planet’s system. Cassini’s instruments have revealed new details including the only extra-terrestrial lakes known in the solar system, and its final series of orbits will reveal details of […]
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Answer to bacterial antibiotic resistance may be found in plants
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an ever-growing problem for healthcare, agriculture and hygiene, thanks to their indiscriminate and often excessive use. While natural, plant-derived antimicrobial small molecules may offer a potential solution, they often lack sufficient activity and selectivity to fulfil antibiotic requirements, and their conventional methods activation may not be compatible with biomedical applications. […]
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We're celebrating Peer Review Week 2017
Embracing this year’s Peer Review Week theme of transparency, we start with IOP Publishing staff revealing their roles in the peer review process: https://youtu.be/fNRTBXH3JwEVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Peer Review Week 2017 (https://youtu.be/fNRTBXH3JwE) Find out more about how we’re celebrating Peer Review Week 2017 at IOP Publishing here.
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ORCID scheme introduced across all IOP Publishing journals
As part of IOP Publishing’s commitment to ensuring researchers get full credit for their work, we are now requiring ORCID identifiers for all corresponding authors submitting their work to IOP Publishing-owned journals. Open Researcher and Contributor ID, known as ORCID, is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a unique digital name, or ID, which identifies researchers […]
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Journal marks 60th anniversary of the first serious nuclear accidents
This year sees the 60th anniversary of the world’s first serious nuclear accidents – the “Kyshtym Accident” in Russia and the “Windscale Fire” in England. The accidents happened at nuclear weapons production sites within two weeks of each other in the autumn of 1957, and required measures to protect the public. To mark the anniversary, […]
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Paper reveals the theory behind ALPHA antihydrogen breakthrough
New research by a team from Aarhus, Swansea, and Purdue Universities has enabled recent experiments to make the first measurement of the 1S – 2S atomic state transition in antihydrogen. In the paper, published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, a theoretical approach is developed for the ALPHA experiment at […]
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Cell culture system could offer cancer breakthrough
A new cell culture system that provides a tool for preclinical cancer drug development and screening has been developed by researchers in the USA. The team, led by scientists from Princeton University, New Jersey, created a microfluidic cell culture device that allows the direct, real-time observation of the development of drug resistance in cancer cells. […]
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Solar cell breakthrough paves the way for new applications
An international scientific collaboration has successfully integrated a sub-micron thin, nanophotonic silicon film into a crystalline solar cell for the first time. Thinner crystalline silicon cells absorb less light. While the addition of nanophotonic structures can strongly improve light absorption, their integration into the cells has been challenging thus far, due to the electrical losses […]
