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IOP for Africa in Ghana

By Lena | 17 Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
IOP for Africa in Ghana

Watch this new video about our IOP for Africa project in Ghana.

Funding gap should be bridged to help scientists in developing countries

By Lena | 2 Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Funding gap should be bridged to help scientists in developing countries

The Department for International Development (DfID) could help scientists in developing countries by offering small grants to help enhance already successful projects. Speaking at the Science and Technology Committee’s Evidence session on Science and international development earlier today, Dr Beth Taylor, Director of Communications at the Institute of Physics (IOP), outlined IOP’s approach to supporting [...]

Swiss scientists prove durability of quantum network

By Joe W | 2 Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
Quantum cyryptography

Scientists and engineers have proven the worth of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network. Their international network, created in collaboration with ID Quantique and installed in the Geneva metropolitan area and crossing over to the site of CERN in France, ran for more than one-and-a-half years from [...]

IOP for Africa – second appeal launched

By Lena | 1 Dec, 2011 | 1 Comment
IOP for Africa – second appeal launched

Following last year’s successful fundraising effort to support our physics education projects in Africa, we have now launched our second IOP for Africa appeal. IOP for Africa is a campaign to raise the profile and raise funds for IOP’s Physics for Development programme. Through the programme, IOP challenges the obstacles to physics education in some [...]

New pictures: IUPAP General Assembly

By Lena | 2 Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
New pictures: IUPAP General Assembly

The Institute of Physics is currently hosting the IUPAP General Assembly with physicists from all over the world gathered in London.   Some of the delegates   Soo-Bong Kim, Professor of Physics at the Seoul National University Malcom MacCallum (President of AC2, from the UK), Peter Wenzel (COSPAR, from the Netherlands) and Zipho Ngcobo (South African [...]

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