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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, […]
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Fluid Dynamics Research Prize
Each year the Editorial Board of Fluid Dynamics Research (FDR) selects an outstanding article published in the previous year to be awarded the FDR Prize. Winners 2015 Stefan Zammert (Philipps-Universtät Marburg, Germany) and Bruno Eckhardt (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) for the article ‘Periodically bursting edge states in plane Poiseuille flow’ 2014 S Koch, […]
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Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Best Paper Prize
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical awards up to three Best Paper Prizes every year to celebrate well written papers that make significant contributions to their fields. Winners 2016 David Gómez-Ullate et al for their paper ‘High-precision percolation thresholds and Potts-model critical manifolds from graph polynomials’ Jesper Lykke Jacobsen for his paper ‘High-precision percolation […]
