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Study reveals scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change
16 May 2013
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused
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Physics of Emergent Behaviour
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International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS 2013)
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Superconductivity and Quantum Fluids
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May 23
1908 Birth of John Bardeen, a double winner of a Nobel Prize for Physics - the first being the 1956 award, jointly with William Shockley and Walter Brattain, for their invention of the transistor, and the second, in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their work on superconductivity
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- Winners of the Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize announced
Congratulations to the winners of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical's Best Paper Prize 2012. - Impact Factor success
The 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing.
