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  • Photo | Forest, Pixabay, CC0

    We Know How Forests Changed this Month, Thanks to New Satellite Alerts

    New methodology allows better resolution forest-tracking satellite data.

  • New climate study argues for carbon fee

    A new study reports that current rising temperatures already noticeably load the ‘climate dice’, with growing practical impacts. As a bottom line, the lead author, Dr James Hansen, argues that a carbon fee is needed to spur replacement of carbon fuels with clean energy. The findings are reported today, 2nd March 2016, in the journal […]

  • Sponge structure key to mopping up oil spills

    An interconnected structure, which water can easily flow through, is key to creating a highly effective mechanical sponge for clearing oil spills. These are the findings from scientists at the Istituto Italiano di Technologia (IIT), Italy, in their paper published today, 2nd March 2016, in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. The traditional method of […]

  • An illustration showing the electrode array on the subject’s brain, including a representation of what part of the brain controls each finger. Credit: Guy Hotson

    Mind-controlled prosthetic arm moves individual 'fingers'

    Physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins report what they believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and independently of each other using a mind-controlled artificial “arm” to control the movement.

  • Photo | Collage of staff for #WomenInSTEM day (c) IOP Publishing

    Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    Joining our colleagues at the Institute of Physics, we invited our Twitter followers, as well as our staff, to take photographs of themselves nominating their favourite female scientist. We shared these photos on Twitter using the #WomenInSTEM hashtag.

  • Photo | Kestrel in flight, Pixabay, CC0

    Kestrel inspires unpowered, autonomous glider to climb higher

    Researchers at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia have drawn inspiration from the way kestrels hover above their prey to develop an autonomous fixed-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) that can gain height from convenient updrafts. The results are published today, Friday 18th December, in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. “It’s long been known the birds take […]

  • Photo | Woman in field

    Better water management could halve the global food gap

    Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields. For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation.

  • Award ceremony word cloud

    ABSW IOP Student Science Publication Award now open

    The IOP Student Science Publication Award, one of the ABSW Science Writers’ Awards, is now open for entry. Launched in 2014, the award which is supported by IOP Publishing and the Institute of Physics, recognises the contribution that student publishers make to science communication. It is open to student journalists who produce a regular science […]