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New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades
Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account. The new metric—the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId)—indicates that a little-studied heat wave in Finland in 1972 had the same extent and magnitude of the 2003 European heat wave […]
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New Editor-in-Chief for New Journal of Physics announced as Barry Sanders
Professor Barry Sanders has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of New Journal of Physics (NJP) and will begin his term in January 2016. Professor Sanders will succeed Professor Eberhard Bodenschatz who has served as Editor-in-Chief of NJP since 2005. Professor Sanders holds positions at institutions in both North America and Asia. He is Director […]
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Neural stimulation offers treatment for ‘dry eye’
Scientists have developed a device that electronically stimulates tear production, which will offer hope to sufferers of dry eye syndrome, one of the most common eye diseases in the world. The device, 16 mm long, 3-4 mm wide and 1-2 mm thick, was implanted beneath the inferior lacrimal gland in rabbit eyes. It was activated […]
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A fishy tale of a sheep in wolf’s clothing
Scientists have developed a technique to perform dietary analysis of fish by analysing microscopic tooth wear. The process, which involves taking moulds of the teeth similar to those a dentist might take, used focus variation microscopy to digitally capture details of the tooth surfaces, zooming in to an area just 1/7th of a mm in […]
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Quantum teleportation of two properties wins Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award
Chinese physicists Professor Chaoyang Lu and Professor Jian-Wei Pan have been awarded the Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year.
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Smart Materials and Structures Best Paper Prize at the CANSMART Conference
This award is presented at the Canadian Smart Materials and Structures Group (CANSMART) Conference. Previous winners 2015: D Ginsberg and C P Fritzen for their paper ‘Sparse Solution Strategy for Simultaneous Localization and Magnitude Estimation of Impact Loads’. 2013: Kyle Mulligan, Nicolas Quaegebeur and Patrice Masson for their paper ‘A Novel Signal Compensation Algorithm for […]
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Physics in Medicine & Biology Citations Prize
Physics in Medicine & Biology awards the Rotblat Medal to the authors of the research paper that has received the most citations in the preceding five years (according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)). The Rotblat Medal is named in honour of Prof. Sir Joseph Rotblat who was the second — and longest serving […]
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Nuclear Fusion Award
Each year, the Nuclear Fusion Editorial Board shortlist ten papers for the Nuclear Fusion Award. Winners 2015 R.J. Goldston for ‘Heuristic drift-based model of the power scrape-off width in low-gas-puff H-mode tokamaks’ Read the shortlisted papers for the 2015 prize. 2014 Phil Snyder for ‘A first-principles predictive model of the pedestal height and width: development, […]
