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New Head of Business Development and Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for IOP Publishing
Brett Rubinstein has today been announced as the new Head of Business Development and Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for IOP Publishing. Mr Rubinstein will take up his new role at the Bristol office of IOP Publishing in mid-September. He has over ten years’ experience in scientific, technical and medical publishing and […]
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IOP Publishing announces its new journal, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
From left to right: Yves Mély, Editor-in-Chief; Jane Roscoe, Head of Partner Development; David Birch, Editor-in-Chief; Otto Wolfbeis, Editor-in-Chief; Sharon d’Souza, Publisher. IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced the launch of a new journal, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. This brings IOP’s existing journals portfolio to 69 titles. An electronic-only journal, Methods and Applications in Fluorescence […]
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Invisible QR codes tackle counterfeit bank notes
An invisible quick response (QR) code has been created by researchers in an attempt to increase security on printed documents and reduce the possibility of counterfeiting, a problem which costs governments and private industries billions of pounds each year. Publishing their research today, 12 September, in IOP Publishing’s journal Nanotechnology, the researchers from the University […]
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Met Office model to better predict extreme winters
Severe UK winters, like the ‘big freeze’ of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office’s latest model, new research suggests. A new study, published today, Friday 14 September, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, compares the latest seasonal forecast system to the one previously used and shows that […]
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Neural implant recovers ability to make decisions
Researchers have taken a key step towards recovering specific brain functions in sufferers of brain disease and injuries by successfully restoring the decision-making processes in monkeys. By placing a neural device onto the front part of the monkeys’ brains, the researchers, from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre, University of Kentucky and University of Southern California, […]
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KISTI and IOP Publishing sign agreement to widen scientific research in Korea
The Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a new strategic collaboration for the provision and dissemination of scientific research. As a result of this partnership Korean researchers will get access to over 400,000 articles in the IOP Journal Archive, the definitive […]
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Sea-level study shows signs of things to come
Our greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of the Earth that will cause sea-levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. The results come from a study, published today, 2 October, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, which sought to model sea-level changes over […]
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My life on Mars: engineering student experiences life on the red planet
As NASA’s Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we’ve begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like. In this month’s Physics World, Ashley Dale, a PhD student at the University of Bristol, brings this […]
