Please don’t buy an electric car
Professor Averil Macdonald is speaking at a debate on electric cars in Salisbury on Tuesday 18 June. Here she argues against buying an electric car without first thinking about the consequences. We all like to think we are doing our bit for the environment. Perhaps you’ve already bought a rechargeable electric vehicle (EV) or are [...]
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Top 40 Work Placements: Elizabeth Morrison-Wells used her physics degree to put hair under the microscope
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. There’s still time to apply, but you’ll have to be quick — applications close tomorrow at 9am. We’re finding out what last summer’s [...]
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Top 40 Work Placements: Elias Pambou spent a summer in Glasgow testing microcontrollers
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. Find out how to apply – but be quick, applications close this Friday at 9am. We’re finding out what last summer’s placement students got [...]
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Top 40 Work Placements: Toby Brown created a 3D vision system for a new planetary rover
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. Find out how to apply. We’ll be finding out what last summer’s placement students got up to. Toby Brown already answered some of [...]
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Daily news
Today’s physics news: Europe’s Herschel telescope switched off, as ExoMars missions set for 2016 launch
Europe’s ExoMars missions ‘on track’
Today’s physics news: Higgs-hunting physicist awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours; £1m for innovation in new ‘Longitude Prize’
Birthday Honours: Adele joins Blackadder stars on list Blackadder actor Tony Robinson has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on a list that also includes his co-star Rowan Atkinson. A Belfast physicist who helped find the Higgs boson and solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe has been awarded an OBE as part of [...]
Today’s physics news: Twenty six black hole candidates discovered ‘next door’ to our galaxy
Black hole bonanza in ‘next door’ Andromeda galaxy
Physics videos
Physics videos roundup: 14 June 2013
Our loyal viewers get lucky this week as our videos are harder, better, faster and stronger than ever. We go face to face with a Daft Punk engineering project and there is some digital love for the Raspberry Pi.
Education
Student teacher: Learning to teach is harder than doing three PhDs
Our student teacher slogging her way towards the end of the year. It’s all been worth while, though. Especially now she has her very own nickname.
Physics around the UK
Young author Beth Reeks on why she’s interested in physics: ‘There’s something really satisfying in knowing how and why the world works’
When A-level student Beth Reeks posted her first novel online, it was read by 19 million people and landed her a three-book deal with Random House. But it is physics, not English, that she’ll study when she starts university in the autumn. We caught up with her to find out why.
Physics around the world
Urals meteorite prompts a special round-up
Henry Lau, editor of physics.org, has put together a special news round-up to help grasp what happened last week when the meteorite hit Russia. One of the biggest physics story this year has literally exploded on the news. A meteorite hit the Urals region in Russia on Friday morning UK time. On the same day, [...]
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Today’s physics news: Higgs-hunting physicist awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours; £1m for innovation in new ‘Longitude Prize’
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