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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 […]
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Climate sceptics more prominent in UK and US media
Climate sceptics are being given a more prominent, and sometimes uncontested, voice in UK and US newspapers in contrast to other countries around the world, new research suggests. The findings have been published today, 5 October, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, as part of a study looking at how climate scepticism manifested itself […]
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IOP Publishing congratulates the 2012 Nobel Laureates in Physics
The 2012 Nobel Laureates in Physics have been announced today in Sweden. IOP Publishing offers its congratulations to this year’s Laureates, Serge Haroche and David J Wineland, who were awarded the prize for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”. To celebrate the achievement of Professors Haroche and Wineland, we […]
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IOP Publishing announces the launch of its ebook programme and a new partnership
Steven Hall (right), Managing Director of IOP Publishing, and Michael Morgan (left), President and CEO of Morgan and Claypool. IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced its entrance into the book market as part of a long-term strategy to expand its support to the research community by offering the broadest range of publishing services to authors […]
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Glaciers cracking in the presence of carbon dioxide
The well-documented presence of excessive levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere is causing global temperatures to rise and glaciers and ice caps to melt. New research, published today, 11 October, in IOP Publishing’s Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, has shown that CO2 molecules may be having a more direct impact on the […]
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IOP Publishing and the Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute renew publishing partnership
IOP Publishing (IOP), Bristol, UK and the Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute (SGRI), Nanjing, China, have announced the renewal of their publishing partnership. Building on nine years of collaboration, the partnership will ensure that the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering continues to be a distinguished journal within its field. The Journal of Geophysics and Engineering covers […]
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IOP Publishing moves to CC-BY licence for open access articles and bibliographic metadata
IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced a significant change to its copyright arrangements for research published on an open access basis in the company’s wholly owned journals and for bibliographic metadata. As a result of this move, the company will adopt a more liberal Creative Commons licence (CC-BY 3.0) for future articles published on a […]