News

 

Welcome to the Institute of Physics news pages. In this section you will find the latest news from both the Institute itself and also from the national and international physics community.

Below are the news stories from the past 4 weeks.

Institute of Physics News

HEFCE funding for 2010/11

Many IOP members will already be aware of the announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) on 1 February on the provisional distribution of funding to English universities and colleges in 2010, including a £450 million reduction in funding compared with previously announced plans

 
 
 
The law and the Large Hadron Collider: who should have jurisdiction?

After court cases seeking to halt the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were thrown out of Swiss and Hawaiian law courts, one US lawyer is arguing that it and other hypothetically destructive experiments should not expect to be beyond the rule of law

 
Prof John Harries
IOP fellow new Welsh Chief Scientific Adviser

Prof John Harries, Professor of Earth Observation at Imperial College London, has today been named the first Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales

 
 
Institute of Physics News
Recommendations for review of the Science and Technology Facilities Council

The Institute of Physics (IOP) has today submitted its recommendations to the review of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) commissioned by Lord Drayson on 16 December

 
Understanding the brain
Post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosed with magnetism

A group of 74 US veterans has been involved in clinical trials which appear to have objectively diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), something conventional brain scans, be it X-ray, CT or MRI, have thus far failed to do

 
 
Female scientist
Women and biophysics on the rise in UK physics

The Institute of Physics’ latest Academic Appointments Survey provides a snapshot of the people, from researchers to experimental officers, lecturers and professors, in the UK’s physics departments as of December 2008, to enable comparison with the previous survey completed in 2004

 
Science business
Science-based innovation receives a Government boost

Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson spoke alongside Professor David Delpy, Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, yesterday, Thursday 7 January at an event in London, to reassert the Government’s commitment to science and innovation and to launch Government strategy for economic growth

 
 
Physics World
How people work … and the mystery of your fingerprints

Writing in January’s Physics World, Dr Roland Ennos, a biomechanic in the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Manchester, explains how we need to look beyond obvious answers if we are to understand how our own bodies work

 
Graham Farmelo
Dirac book scoops biography prize

Graham Farmelo’s The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius has won the 2009 Costa Biography Award, shortly after reviewers at Physics World named it their book of the year in their 2009 wrap-up

 
 
 
 

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