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Engineered robot interacts with live fish
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots. Results published today, 8 June, in IOP Publishing’s journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, provide a stepping stone on the path to using autonomous robots in an open environment to monitor and control fish behaviour. In the future, water-based […]
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Physicists predict success of movies at the box office
A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models. The researchers, publishing their study today, 15 June, in the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society’s New Journal of Physics, used the effects of […]
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Power-generating knee strap hints at end for batteries
Battery-powered devices could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a group of UK researchers who have created a novel energy harvester to power some of the latest wearable gadgets. By strapping the energy harvester to the knee joint, a user could power body-monitoring devices such as heart rate monitors, pedometers and accelerometers […]
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IOP Publishing moves to new subscription fulfillment vendor for the Americas
IOP Publishing has today announced that it will be moving to a new subscription fulfillment company for customers in North, South and Central America, effective immediately. The company has selected Cambey & West, based in Congers, NY as their new service provider, as part of a company–wide review and investment in customer service. The move […]
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Maths formula leads researchers to source of pollution
The leaking of environmentally damaging pollutants into our waters and atmosphere could soon be counteracted by a simple mathematical algorithm, according to researchers. Presenting their research today, 26 June, in IOP Publishing’s journal Inverse Problems, the researchers, from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, believe their work could aid efforts to avoid environmental catastrophes by identifying […]
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IOP Publishing and China National Knowledge Infrastructure sign agreement
IOP Publishing (IOP) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) have signed an agreement to create an IOP Journal Metadata Database, which will give researchers in China greater access to key journal content published by IOP and the company’s partners. As a result of this arrangement researchers at Chinese institutions can now search the IOP Journal […]
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Journals from IOP Publishing celebrate Impact Factor growth for the eighth year running
The 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the eighth year running. This year, 34 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 17 titles have had an increase of over […]
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Physics confirms sprinters are performing better than ever before
In this month’s Physics World, Steve Haake, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, reveals that the men’s 100 m sprint will be one event not to miss this summer. Haake has developed something called the “performance-improvement index”, which uses very simple physics to compare the relative improvement […]
