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A plan to support high-tech business

By Lena | Published: February 25, 2010
In a public note to policy-makers published today the Institute of Physics (IOP) asserts the value of physics-based business to the UK economy and stresses measures needed, such as an expanded R&D tax-credit scheme, to create a world-leading, high-tech economy. Physics-dependent, high-technology manufacturing sectors – such as screens and displays, aerospace and transport – employ 1.3 [...]
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Looking inside the atom for new technologies

By Lena | Published: February 19, 2010
Nuclear physics, which studies the huge variety of nuclei in all the matter that surrounds us, not only provides answers about the evolution of our universe, it also provides the underpinning knowledge needed to exploit nuclear properties in new technologies. A new report launched by the Institute of Physics, Nuclear physics and technology – inside the [...]
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IOP Schools Lecture 2010 – Part One

By Lena | Published: February 16, 2010
Taking in 35 venues across the UK, this year’s Institute of Physics Schools Lecturer, Dr Melanie Windridge, will explain to 13 000 students how scientists working on nuclear fusion hope to replicate the behaviour of the Sun here on Earth to produce a plentiful and environmentally friendly energy source. Melanie, who has a PhD in plasma physics [...]
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Physics in a Primary School

By Alison R | Published: February 15, 2010
Engaging young children about physics can sometimes be difficult, but Gavin Leithall and Paul Skrzypczyk, postgraduate physics students from the School of Physics, University of Bristol, visited Elmlea Junior School in Bristol on February 10th to do just this.  They spent the day giving talks to six Year 3 and Year 4 classes as part of the school’s Science [...]
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In the community:Physics in Rwanda

By Lena | Published: February 11, 2010
Nature and the Institute of Physics (IOP) are working together to provide equipment for teaching physics in Rwanda. Funded by the IOP, volunteer physics teacher David Richardson started a project in 2005 that donated equipment to one school in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Today, a local workshop funded by Nature and the IOP builds 100 sets of [...]
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