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Welcome to the Institute of Physics news pages. In this section you will find the latest news from both the Institute itself and also from the national and international physics community.

Artificial bee eye gives insight into insects’ visual world

Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee’s field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles

 
 
 
An Irish physics film 'The Leidenfrost Effect' was the winner of the IOP Best SciCast Physics (16+) category in the film making competition that extends across the UK and Ireland
Physics comes first at Planet SciCast film awards

Physics films dominated this year’s Planet SciCast awards ceremony, scoring prizes such as the coveted ‘Best Film 2010’ at the glittering event at the Royal Institution on Friday, 16 July

 
Artificial aurora to help predict space weather

For more than twenty five years our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions about how nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, reacts when it collides with electrons produced by energetic ultraviolet sunlight and ‘solar wind’

 
 
Omnidirectional electromagnetic absorber
Scientists create artificial mini “black hole”

Scientists create artificial mini “black hole”

 
Artificial butterfly in flight and filmed

A group of Japanese researchers, who publish their findings today Thursday, 20 May in IOP Publishing’s Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, have succeeded in building a fully functional replica model – an ornithopter – of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed their model butterfly flying

 
 
The 2010 candidates
“Double victory” at IOP’s young female physicist award

The 2010 Very Early Career Award, presented by the Women in Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (IOP), was for the first time awarded jointly to two young women physicists on 5 May, for their outstanding achievements in physics research and their inspiring enthusiasm for disseminating a love of physics through a variety of outreach activities

 
Neuron research could improve hearing loss restoration

New research into the way our brain uses neurons to enable us to perceive sound and understand speech could fundamentally improve the design of current surgical implants and so help restore hearing in patients with profound hearing loss

 
 
Link between solar activity and the UK’s cold winters

A link between low solar activity and jet streams over the Atlantic could explain why, despite global warming trends, people in regions North East of the Atlantic Ocean might need to brace themselves for more frequent cold winters in years to come

 
Dr Steve Myers, Director of Accelerators at CERN
IOPI Spring Weekend : 'The definite particle' and Rosse medal

The Institute of Physics in Ireland’s annual Spring Weekend was held at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, 26 - 28 March 2010. Titled, ‘the definite particle’, the family friendly event focussed on high energy physics and combined academic talks with a lively social programme including a pub quiz and a boat trip on the Shannon

 
 
UCC students hold title as the smartest once again winning the IOP Intervarsity Physics Quiz

A dramatic finish to the 2010 IOP Intervarsity Physics Quiz when the cup was won, for the second year running, by UCC who knocked out UCD in a 'sudden-death' question after a tie in the head-to-head round

 
IOP Ireland silver medal for first place in physics 2009 Leaving Certificate awarded to Rebecca Fenney Barry

The IOP silver medal for the highest level of achievement in physics in the 2009 Leaving Certificate physics examination was presented by Dr Eilish McLoughlin, Chair IOP Ireland Education Group to Rebecca Feeney-Barry from St Columba's College

 
 
Bob Kirby-Harris with the winners of the IOP Physics Prize
IOP in Ireland fantastic physics demos at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition: 14-16 January

A fantastic array of demonstrations being presented to the public at the Institute of Physics in Ireland stand at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS in Dublin

 
 
 

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