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Power-generating knee strap hints at end for batteries
Battery-powered devices could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a group of UK researchers who have created a novel energy harvester to power some of the latest wearable gadgets. By strapping the energy harvester to the knee joint, a user could power body-monitoring devices such as heart rate monitors, pedometers and accelerometers […]
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IOP Publishing moves to new subscription fulfillment vendor for the Americas
IOP Publishing has today announced that it will be moving to a new subscription fulfillment company for customers in North, South and Central America, effective immediately. The company has selected Cambey & West, based in Congers, NY as their new service provider, as part of a company–wide review and investment in customer service. The move […]
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Maths formula leads researchers to source of pollution
The leaking of environmentally damaging pollutants into our waters and atmosphere could soon be counteracted by a simple mathematical algorithm, according to researchers. Presenting their research today, 26 June, in IOP Publishing’s journal Inverse Problems, the researchers, from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, believe their work could aid efforts to avoid environmental catastrophes by identifying […]
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IOP Publishing and China National Knowledge Infrastructure sign agreement
IOP Publishing (IOP) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) have signed an agreement to create an IOP Journal Metadata Database, which will give researchers in China greater access to key journal content published by IOP and the company’s partners. As a result of this arrangement researchers at Chinese institutions can now search the IOP Journal […]
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Journals from IOP Publishing celebrate Impact Factor growth for the eighth year running
The 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the eighth year running. This year, 34 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 17 titles have had an increase of over […]
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Physics confirms sprinters are performing better than ever before
In this month’s Physics World, Steve Haake, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, reveals that the men’s 100 m sprint will be one event not to miss this summer. Haake has developed something called the “performance-improvement index”, which uses very simple physics to compare the relative improvement […]
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Pre-industrial emissions still causing temperatures to rise
A climate model accounting for the carbon dioxide (CO2) released into our atmosphere before the industrial revolution has been used to show the detrimental effect of carbon emissions on global temperature in the long-term. In a study published today, 4 July, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science […]
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Most accurate robotic legs mimic human walking gait
A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate manner. The neural architecture, musculoskeletal architecture and sensory feedback pathways in humans have been simplified and built into the robot, giving it a remarkably human-like walking gait. The biological […]
