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Penn-engineered neural networks show hope for axonal repair in the brain, with minimal disruption to brain tissue
Lab-grown neural networks have the ability to replace lost axonal tracks in the brains of patients with severe head injuries, strokes or neurodegenerative diseases and can be safely delivered with minimal disruption to brain tissue, according to new research from Penn Medicine’s department of Neurosurgical Research.
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IOP Publishing staff raises £9k for local charity Bristol Mind
January is a time when many make New Year’s resolutions to improve physical and mental wellbeing and take stock of accomplishments from the past 12 months. Staff at IOP Publishing’s head office in Bristol are thrilled to report that following fundraising efforts last year, they raised a massive £8,960 for local mental health charity Bristol […]
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Caltech researchers find evidence of a real ninth planet
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the […]
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To clean up ocean plastics focus on coasts, not the Great Pacific garbage patch
Plastic floating in the oceans is a widespread and increasing problem. Plastics including bags, bottle caps and plastic fibres from synthetic clothes wash out into the oceans from urban rivers, sewers and waste deposits.
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Saliva test to detect GHB and alcohol poisonings
Scientists working at Loughborough University, UK, and the University of Cordoba, Spain, have developed a new method for the rapid diagnosis of poisoning in apparently drunk patients. The saliva-based test offers the potential to screen for poisons commonly associated with the cheap or imitation manufacture of alcohol, and γ-hydroxybutyric acid, the so-called ‘date rape’ drug […]
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IOP Publishing and IUPAP C20 sign five-year agreement
IOP Publishing and the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Computational Physics have signed a five-year framework agreement for publishing open-access conference proceedings. This is the first formal publishing agreement of its kind between IOP and IUPAP and will mean that the proceedings of the annual Conference on Computational Physics will […]
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Physics World Archive now available within IOPscience extra
IOPscience extra subscribers can now access the entire Physics World Archive. This contains more than 11,000 news items, feature articles, comments and reviews dating back to 1988. “Physics World has long been the flagship magazine for the Institute of Physics” said Tony O’Rourke, Assistant Director at IOP Publishing. “The inclusion of the Physics World Archive […]
