Skip to main content
Explore Menu Close IOP | Institute of Physics
  • Home
  • About
    • News
    • Contact
    • Blogs
    • Our strategy
    • The IOP and diversity and inclusion
    • Business innovation
    • Support and grants
    • Awards
    • International
    • Publications
    • Governance
    • IOP history
    • Scientific publishing
  • Policy
    • Policy statements and consultation responses
  • Education
    • How to become a physics teacher
    • Teaching physics in higher education
    • Teaching physics in school and college
    • Support for ITE providers
    • School and college students
    • University students
  • Physics community
    • Become an IOP member
    • IOP membership where you are
    • Special interest groups
    • IOP Conferences
    • University student community
    • Retired members' network
    • Events
    • Resources for public engagement
    • Membership Code of Conduct
    • Information for members during COVID-19
  • Careers with physics
    • Your future with physics: A guide for young people
    • Professional registration for IOP members
    • CPD for IOP members
  • Explore physics
    • Do Try This at Home
    • The Moon Adventure
    • Physics stepping stones
    • Technology in our lives
    • Understanding our environment
    • Sustainable building design
Log in Member Login
Explore IOP | Institute of Physics
Close

Explore

Microsites menu

  • IOP Publishing
  • Physics World

IOPConnect

Log in to personalise your experience and connect with IOP.

Log in
Become a member Log in to IOPConnect

Limit Less: Support young people to change the world

A campaign to support young people to change the world and fulfil their potential by doing physics ...

Find out more

IOP launches £10m Challenge Fund

The IOP is committing £10m over four years. Find out more. ...

Find out more



Materials physicsworld.com
Read more

Hot time for hard disks: why magnetic-recording technology is still going strong

James McKenzie looks at the power of incremental improvement and the commercial success of magnetic‑recording technology…

Feature 2020-12-03
Astronomy and space physicsworld.com
Read more

Neutron-rich tantalum offers a view of how heavy elements are forged

First purified beam of tantalum-187 provides insight in the “r-process” …

Feature 2020-12-01
Instrumentation and measurement physicsworld.com
Read more

Single molecules keep to the straight and narrow

Researchers precisely control molecular motion on a flat surface over long distances …

Feature 2020-12-01
Materials physicsworld.com
Read more

New family of quasiparticles appears in graphene

Researchers identify Brown-Zak fermions in superlattices made from the carbon sheet …

Feature 2020-11-30
IOP.ORG
Read more

What the Spending Review means for physics in the UK

The IOP responds to the UK government’s one-year Spending Review, announced this week. Here we consider how this latest financial settlement is likely to affect our sector in the UK, including researc…

2020-11-27
Instrumentation and measurement physicsworld.com
Read more

Ultracold atoms put high-temperature superconductors under the microscope

Physicists use a Bose-Einstein condensate to study phase transitions in an iron pnictide superconductor …

Feature 2020-11-27
Quantum physicsworld.com
Read more

Quantum software company tackles big computing challenges

Ilyas Khan of Cambridge Quantum Computing is our guest this week …

Feature 2020-11-26
Materials physicsworld.com
Read more

Magnetic perovskite gets the lead out

New material could be used to make spintronics devices without the hazards of its lead-based cousin …

Feature 2020-11-26
IOP.ORG
Read more

UK on track for science superpower status, says Institute of Physics

Responding to the publication of the one-year Spending Review, IOP chief executive Professor Paul Hardaker comments on the government’s commitment to invest £14.6bn over 2021 and 2022 into resear…

2020-11-25
IOP.ORG
Read more

IOP Ireland

The Institute of Physics is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland - on these pages you can find more information about the IOP’s work in Ireland. …

2020-11-25
IOP.ORG
Read more

IOP Scotland

The Institute of Physics is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland. On these pages you can find more information about the IOP’s work in Scotland. …

2020-11-25
IOP.ORG
Read more

IOP Wales

The Institute of Physics is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland. On these pages you can find more information about the IOP’s work in Wales. …

2020-11-25
  • Load more

Footer

  • Environmental statement
  • Modern Slavery Act
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy and cookie policy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Jobs at the IOP

© 2021 IOP All rights reserved.
The Institute is a charity registered in England and Wales (no. 293851) and Scotland (no. SC040092)
Homepage and IOPConnect image © Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Project

Website by Catch