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2025 is the UN's International Year of Quantum, celebrating 100 years of quantum science and technology. Get involved to find out more about quantum technology and how it could change our future.…
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OnlineRead moreMimi’s Tiny Adventure: Lab in the Library
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
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Neutron Scattering Group Early Career Meeting
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
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Fri 22 Aug 2025
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In-personRead moreMimi’s Tiny Adventure: The exhibition in London
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
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Fri 29 Aug 2025
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In-personRead moreQuantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics (QuAMP 2025)
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Tue 2 Sep 2025
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In-personRead more62nd European High Pressure Research Group Meeting
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Sun 31 Aug 2025
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Fri 5 Sep 2025
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OnlineRead moreUnlocking the Power of Start-Ups (how start-ups can transform careers and companies): A joint webinar from the IOP and the IET
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Wed 10 Sep 2025
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HybridRead moreUK Space Weather and Space Environment Meeting III
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Mon 8 Sep 2025
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In-personRead moreMedical Physics in the East Midlands
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Fri 12 Sep 2025
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Latest updates in physics from Physics World and the IOP
Physicists demonstrate Young’s double-slit interference in time
A temporal version of the famous experiment generates fringes in frequency rather than space…
Laser-accelerated proton irradiation: simulating physical and chemical effects
UK researchers are modelling laser-accelerated proton delivery to test whether inter-track interactions could occur with ultrahigh-dose rate irradiation…
Support young people to change the world
Limit Less is our campaign to support young people to change the world and fulfil their potential by doing physics…
One day in and ‘boffin’ is already on borrowed time
The IOP’s science media reporting campaign is already toasting its first success.…
IOP Limit Less campaign sponsors Governors for Schools Conference
Reaching school governors and trustees with the Limit Less message is a key campaign goal. …
‘Trojan horse’ injection method enables ultracompact X-ray free-electron laser
A plasma wakefield accelerator equipped with an advanced electron injection method could help miniaturize X-ray free-electron lasers to a fraction of their current size…
Yes, we get the joke, but ‘boffin’ still needs to go
Keen tabloid watchers will have spotted the excitable reaction from the Daily Star to our campaign on the media reporting of science this week, writes Rachel Youngman. …
Patient-specific ridge filters enable conformal FLASH proton therapy
Optimization framework designs ridge filters and spot maps to meet the unique demands of ultrahigh-dose-rate radiation therapy…