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Shaping the nanoscience landscape – IOP Publishing launches Nano Futures
IOP Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of Nano Futures, a new high-impact, multidisciplinary journal that will be positioned through an editorial policy geared strictly to capturing groundbreaking, future-oriented research with long term influence for nanoscience. Twenty seven years ago, IOP Publishing launched Nanotechnology as the world’s first research journal dedicated to nanoscale science […]
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IOP Publishing partners with Altmetric to improve author services
IOP Publishing has announced a new partnership with Altmetric and Digital Science, to provide its authors and readers with a deeper understanding of how published research is being used and discussed. Authors and readers will be able to view the online attention surrounding each publication via the Altmetric badges embedded into article pages. Jamie Hutchins, […]
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Study finds evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil in land-based birds
Results highlight food-web link between oil exposure and a terrestrial ecosystem The ecological consequences of an environmental disaster can extend further than one may imagine as effects propagate through interconnected food webs. Most recently, researchers in the US have found evidence suggesting that oil from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spillage has been incorporated into birds […]
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Novel reaction microscope scheme targets biologically relevant molecules
Latest spectrometer design is more sensitive to chemical fragments and can distinguish between isomers with more than one carbon atom Researchers in Germany and the US have upgraded the performance of a reaction microscope so that the technique — known as Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy, or COLTRIMS for short — can be extended […]
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Middle East dust storm not caused by conflict, study finds
Climate change, not the ongoing regional conflict, was behind last year’s huge dust storm in the Middle East, according to new research published in Environmental Research Letters. The storm in September 2015 affected Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Cyprus, leading to scores of people being hospitalised, ports being closed, flights being cancelled, and large portions of […]
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Cheap loans for renewables would drive global energy transition
Achieving the global energy transition will not only require the introduction of carbon prices. In addition, costs of capital for wind and solar power plants will need to be reduced from about 10 per cent today to below five per cent in the emerging and developing countries. This could be accomplished by way of export […]
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Physicists make it possible to 3D print your own baby universe
Researchers have created a 3D printed cosmic microwave background – a map of the oldest light in the universe – and provided the files for download. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a glow the universe has in the microwave range that maps the oldest light in the universe. It was imprinted when the universe […]
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Congratulations to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics
