Computing with Playstations
With $5000 of his research grant left burning a hole in his wallet earlier this year, Frank Mueller decided to hit the shops...
Tabloid climate change
You don't need a research paper to tell you that tabloid newspapers aren't the best source of scientific information...
Read article: The ‘Measurement Fair’ returns to Nuremberg
The ‘Measurement Fair’ returns to Nuremberg
Three-day Sensor + Test 2008 exhibition and conferences will offer hands-on demonstrations of the latest test and measurement technologies
The four horsemen
This is a slide from a talk given by David Bader of Lawrence Livermore on behalf of Brian Soden of the University of Miami...
Weathering the storm
"You can flood a city, but you can't drown a university", says Greg Seab, a physicist at the University of New Orleans who was speaking at a press conference on the impact of Katrina on local physi...
Glue and cuprates
One of the most sought after theories in condensed matter physics is that of high temperature superconductivity. It is hard to walk into these kind of talks and understand what is going on. If it is t...
A decade of the New Journal of Physics
So as not to be outdone by the APS, here’s a photo of a cake baked in honour of the 10th anniversary of IOP Publishing’s New Journal of Physics. The first-ever multi-discipline open access...
Happy Birthday, PRL
That’s some cake! Yesterday evening my IOP Publishing colleagues and I managed to blag our way into a posh reception celebrating 50 years of the journal Physical Review Letters. I forgot to take...
A new spin on silicon and graphene
At last year’s March Meeting in Denver, Ian Appelbaum gave a ten-minute talk about how he had injected spin-polarized electrons into a piece of silicon, transported them micrometres and then det...
Black holes as quantum-information mirrors
This is the tale of Alice, Bob and a black hole. Alice and Bob are a couple with a big communication problem — they only talk using quantum information systems. Usually this involves sending enc...
