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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 […]
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Physicists find a way to study coldest objects in the Universe
They are the coldest objects in the Universe and are so fragile that even a single photon can heat and destroy them. Known as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and consisting of just a cluster of atoms, it has up until now been impossible to measure and control these remarkable forms of matter simultaneously. In a new […]
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Bone grafting improvements with the help of sea coral
Sea coral could soon be used more extensively in bone grafting procedures thanks to new research that has refined the material’s properties and made it more compatible with natural bone. By partially converting calcium carbonate―found in the exoskeleton of sea coral―into coralline hydroxyapatite (CHA), the refined material, called coralline hydroxyapatite/calcium carbonate (CHACC), has been shown […]
