Joe Winters is the IOP's Senior Press Officer

SCORE calls for opportunity to bring coherence and consistency to the science curriculum

SCORE (Science Community Representing Education), the partnership representing the UK’s foremost science education organisations, has submitted its response to the Department for Education’s call for evidence in its Review of the National Curriculum.

Post-docs need impartial career support

  The most detailed snapshot yet of the 3,000 or so postdoctoral researchers in physics and chemistry university departments across the UK has been caught by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in a new report. Post-doctoral researchers (PDRs) in physics and chemistry – scientists who have completed a [...]

Metrology: moving energy harvesting forward

Following the launch of a dedicated resource on the IOP’s website for anyone interested in energy harvesting, Prof Markys Cain from the ‘Metrology for Energy Harvesting’ project explains more about the challenges involved in developing the technology.

It Is Rocket Science – Radio 4 @ 11 tonight

If you’re not yet convinced that science and comedy should mix, try tuning into BBC Radio 4 at 11 pm tonight. If you do, you’ll catch the first episode of Helen Keen’s It Is Rocket Science, an irreverant look at the history and future of space travel. Originally developed by Helen as a one woman [...]

Today’s Physics News: Tuesday 8 March 2011

In today’s news round-up: Female physicists make top 100 UK women; fair access defined; GPS fears; and new method for imaging.