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Octopus arm inspires future surgical tool
A robotic arm that can bend, stretch and squeeze through cluttered environments has been created by a group of researchers from Italy. Inspired by the eight arms of the octopus, the device has been specifically designed for surgical operations to enable surgeons to easily access remote, confined regions of the body and, once there, manipulate […]
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Reported successes and failures aid hot pursuit of superconductivity
A collaboration of researchers in Japan have reported on four years of extensive research into superconductivity in a new review paper published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.
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Read the IOP Eurovision collection 2015
The 60th edition of the Annual Eurovision song contest is taking place on 23 May in Vienna, Austria. To mark this special event, we have created the IOP Eurovision collection 2015. The collection includes highly cited papers specially selected by our editors for their relevance to the titles of the previous five winning Eurovision songs. […]
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3D printing technique explored to help treat type 1 diabetes
Researchers from the Netherlands have explored how 3D printing can be used to help treat type 1 diabetes in results presented today, Thursday 28 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Biofabrication. The 3D printing technique, known as bioplotting, has taken researchers one step closer to being able to help patients who experience severe hypoglycaemic events, commonly […]
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Improving the delivery of chemotherapy with graphene
Credit: National Cancer Institute/Linda Bartlett (Public Domain) A new study published in IOP Publishing’s journal 2D Materials has proposed using graphene as an alternative coating for catheters to improve the delivery of chemotherapy drugs. The research suggests that placing graphene – an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms – on the internal surfaces of intravenous […]
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New Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Breath Research announced as Dr. Joachim Pleil
Dr. Joachim Pleil has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Breath Research. Dr. Pleil is a Research Physical Scientist with the Office of Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ORD/EPA). He currently works in the Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division of the National Exposure Research Laboratory located […]
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Climate change won’t reduce winter deaths
In a study that contradicts the received wisdom on health impacts of climate change, scientists say that we shouldn’t expect substantial reduction in winter deaths as a result of global warming. This new research is published today (Friday 19 June) in IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Letters journal. The research team was led by Professor Patrick […]
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Congratulations to the 2015 ABSW IOP Student Science Publication Award winners
IOP Publishing and the Institute of Physics congratulate the winners of the IOP Student Science Publication Award, announced at last night’s Association of British Science Writers’ (ABSW) Awards Ceremony. The awards were presented by Margaret Harris, Section Editor of Physics World, as follows: Winner: Broadsheet, Imperial College Editor-in-Chief: Ben Stockton Sub Editors: Sophie Reid and […]
