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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 […]

  • Photo | plastic floating in ocean

    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.

  • 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 […]

  • SIPAwards 2011

    June 2011: The Sales Team were Highly Commended

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Updated iPhone apps

    IOP Publishing (IOP) has today released the latest versions its popular iPhone applications, IOPscience expressand physicsworld.com newsflash. The two apps have been designed to allow users to keep up to date with IOP’s flagship publications in the physical sciences. Significant improvements have been made to the functionality of both apps in response to feedback from […]

  • Announcing the launch of video abstracts in New Journal of Physics

    New Journal of Physics (NJP) has today announced the launch of video abstracts as a new integrated content stream that will give all authors the opportunity to go beyond the constraints of the written article to personally present the importance of their work to the journal’s global audience. The first examples of the new author-supplied […]

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