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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 – […]
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Future heat waves pose threat to global food supply
Heat waves could significantly reduce crop yields and threaten global food supply if climate change is not tackled and reversed. This is according to a new study led by researchers at the University of East Anglia and published today, 20 March, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, which has, for the first time, […]
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Stool samples provide marker for bowel disease
A novel method for distinguishing different types of bowel disease using the stool samples of patients has been created by a group of researchers in the UK. It works by analysing the chemical compounds emitted from the samples and could provide cheaper, quicker and more accurate diagnoses, at the point of care, for a group […]
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Warm North Atlantic Ocean promotes extreme winters in US and Europe
The extreme cold weather observed across Europe and the east coast of the US in recent winters could be partly down to natural, long-term variations in sea surface temperatures, according to a new study published today. Researchers from the University of California Irvine have shown that a phenomenon known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)—a […]
