Stories from 2009
Institute of Physics stand at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 8-10 January 2009
Over 30,000 visitors attended the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS which was held at the RDS from 8-10 January
Tyndall Lecture 2009
The Tyndall Lecture by Dr Kevin McGuigan: 'The Human Body is the Ultimate Physics Laboratory' tours Ireland from 20 January - 12 February
Microbot motors fit to swim human arteries
A range of complex surgical operations necessary to treat stroke victims, confront hardened arteries or address blockages in the bloodstream are about to be made safer as researchers from the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Australia’s Monash University put the final touches to the design of micro-motors small enough to be injected into the human bloodstream
Dark matter and nanotech explained
The Institute of Physics will be live webcasting two lectures this Thursday, 19 March, from www.iop.org, being given at the Institute to an audience comprised of physics teachers from London and the South East. The main aim of the lectures is to help teachers tackle topical and exciting physics in the classroom
Spring Weekend 2009
The Spring Weekend ‘Physics for Life’ is being held in Whites of Wexford Hotel from 3 – 5 April 2009
Rosse medal presentation
IOP President Jocelyn Bell-Burnell presenting the Rosse medal award for Graduate Research to Joey Enfield from University of Limerick
How do we support today’s Einsteins?
Is today’s academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who have shifted scientific paradigms and asks what we can do to make sure that those who have the potential to change our outlook on the world also have the opportunity to do so
Lessons from Schön – the worst physics fraudster?
How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known?
More than just the tailpipe
Published today in IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Letters, Monday, June 8, 2009, researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a framework to help us calculate the true environmental cost of travel
The Earth’s magnetic field remains a charged mystery
400 years of discussion and we’re still not sure what creates the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus the magnetosphere, despite the importance of the latter as the only buffer between us and deadly solar wind of charged particles (made up of electrons and protons). New research raises question marks about the forces behind the magnetic field and the structure of Earth itself
Geo-engineering: the promise and its limits
Four expert speakers attended an event organised by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Academy of Engineering on 15 July, at the House of Commons, to address an audience curious about geo-engineering the planet to combat the effects of global warming; the solutions it offers and the concerns it raises
Physics question cards
Brand new Physics Question Cards: a set of four colourful cards with intriguing multiple-choice physics questions. Challenge yourself to see if you know all the answers!
Northern Ireland’s science education ‘artery’ assessed
Northern Ireland’s Assembly and regional businesses needs to work together to revitalise the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)’s education ‘artery’ to ensure the future economic prosperity of the region, says a new report commissioned by the Department for Education and the Department for Employment and Learning
Optical fibres and CCD sensors take the Nobel Prize for Physics 2009
The inventor of optical fibres, the veins of modern communication, and the two physicists behind the development of Charge-Coupled Device (or CCD) have received the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics
Physicist swipes Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Nobel Prize for Physics, a UK-based physicist has also been honoured today but this time with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
0.2 second test for explosive liquids
Since a failed terrorist attack in 2006, plane passengers have not been able to carry bottles of liquid through security at airports, leaving some parched at the airport and others having expensive toiletries confiscated, but work by a group of physicists in Germany is paving the way to eliminate this necessary nuisance
Physics questions advertised on public transport
Physics questioncards feature on the DART and buses in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Louth from 2 - 15 November
The Lords of the Ring
Particle physics at the N. Ireland Science Park
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