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New heatwaves model predicts strong increase in next two decades
1 December 2015
Scientists have developed a new method to model heatwave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heatwave into account
Graphene microphone has ultrasonic potential
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Winners of the Best Practice in Professional Development awards
Winners of the Best Practice in Professional Development awards announced!
Latest news from the LHC date change
Please note that that the date for this lecture in Manchester has changed to 16 February 2016
Using physics to forecast the weather and white Christmases
9 Dec, 6pm. Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, M15 6HB.
Quantitative Methods in Gene Regulation III
Registration deadline: 30 November 2015
Superconductivity Group Winter Science Meeting
Registration deadline: 1 December 2015
BRSG Christmas Meeting 2015: NMR & Crystallography
Registration deadline: 7 December 2015
Low Temperature Techniques Course
Registration deadline: 9 December 2015
Topical Research Meeting on Physical Principles of Biological and Active Systems
Registration deadline: 10 December 2015
Frontiers in Unconventional Superconductivity, Superfluidity and Magnetism
Early registration deadline 11 December 2015
Physics Fest Ipswich
Family fun day. Northgate High School
December 8
- 1962 A Boeing 707 crashes after being struck by positive lightning, a phenomenon not accounted for in safety standards
- 2010 SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.



