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IOP Publishing celebrates 2013 Nobel Laureates in Physics
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has today been announced in Sweden. This year’s laureates are François Englert and Peter Higgs for ‘the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by […]
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IOP Publishing unveils its first ebooks collection
IOP Publishing (IOP) is proud to unveil the first titles in the company’s new ebooks publishing programme at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (9–13 October). IOP announced its entrance into the ebook market and a new partnership with Morgan & Claypool Publishers (M&C) at the book fair in 2012. One year later and IOP is […]
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Changing the way referees are rewarded
IOP Publishing has introduced a new referee reward scheme as part of the company’s open access policy. The move has been designed to help recognise the contribution made by reviewers to the peer-review process. It will also benefit researchers who wish to make the final published version of their work immediately available through gold open […]
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Solar activity playing a minimal role in global warming, research suggests
Changes in solar activity have contributed no more than 10 per cent to global warming in the twentieth century, a new study has found. The findings, made by Professor Terry Sloan at the University of Lancaster and Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale at the University of Durham, find that neither changes in the activity of the […]
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Artificial heart to pump human waste into future robots
A new device capable of pumping human waste into the “engine room” of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers from Bristol. Modelled on the human heart, the artificial device incorporates smart materials called shape memory alloys and could be used to deliver human urine to future generations of EcoBot – […]
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Researchers warn against high emissions from oil palm expansion in Brazil
Expanding millions of hectares of Brazilian land to produce palm oil for food or for renewable, clean-burning biodiesel could result in extremely high emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) unless strict controls are put in place. This is according to a new study published today, 14 November, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, by a […]
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A Whirling Dervish puts physicists in a spin
A force that intricately links the rotation of the Earth with the direction of weather patterns in the atmosphere has been shown to play a crucial role in the creation of the hypnotic patterns created by the skirts of the Whirling Dervishes. This is according to an international group of researchers who have demonstrated how […]
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IOP ebook author awarded Rothschild Prize
Professor Shlomo Havlin, author of IOP ebook Introduction to Network of Networks has been awarded the 2014 Rothschild Prize. The Rothschild Prize in chemical and physical sciences is a prestigious Israeli award, established in 1959 by Yad Hanadiv to support the advancement of sciences and humanities in the country. The prize will be awarded to […]
