IOP Chief Executive: ‘Scotland’s physics community is pulling together’
Tom Grinyer visits Scotland and finds IOP staff and members, MSPs and other physicists in buoyant mood. …
Chaos plays a role in how memories are forgotten, simulations suggest
Memories fade into noise to make room for new information…
IOP President Sheila Rowan receives the Philip Leverhulme Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Rowan recognised for gravitational waves research and significant contribution to the physics community. …
Vacuum Physics Group Thesis Prize
Applications are now open for the first edition of the prize that recognises the year’s most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of vacuum physics. …
Professor Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish FRS CPhys FInstP (1962-2023)
Theoretical physicist renowned for increasing our understanding of soft matter and his work in biological physics. …
Laser interferometry moves closer to shot-noise-limited measurements
By reducing the contribution of other noises, researchers have achieved a record displacement sensitivity in laser interferometry…
Hydrogel helps grow new tissue in areas of brain damage
A novel hydrogel combined with transplanted neural stem cells could provide therapeutic brain tissue reconstruction …
Physics Powering the Green Economy
The IOP is shaping the debate on matters important to the physics community in academia and business in the UK and Ireland. …
UK Semiconductor Challenges and Solutions
This joint IOP-Royal Academy of Engineering report highlights issues in the UK semiconductor sector and makes suggestions for progress. …
Calls for government to secure future of UK semiconductor industry
Joint IOP-Royal Academy of Engineering report highlights issues of skills shortages, high costs and low public awareness. …
National Institute of Technical Skills and Strategy to support UK research and innovation
The IOP is partnering a drive to support physics-based skills and fulfil the government’s ambitions to become a science superpower. …
Limit Less for educators
Join the campaign to help give every young person the opportunities they deserve. …