Lena Weber
Today’s physics news: Thursday, 29 July 2010
Scientists erupt as Browne calls for spending switch towards engineering Ex-BP chief calls for review of £4bn budget Financial Times Ignorance lays Parliament open to ‘nonsense debates’ Many MPs do not get involved in science policy because the issues take them “seriously outside their comfort zone”, a senior parliamentarian has admitted. THE Aurora [...]
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 28 July 2010
String theorist Edward Witten gives prize lecture The king of string theory visited London earlier this month to accept the Newton medal at the Institute of Physics. His full lecture is now online Guardian Massive asteroid might hit Earth in 2182, warn scientists It was first discovered in 1999 and is about 1,837 feet [...]
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Parliamentary push for specialist physics teachers
A selection of cross-party MPs has joined the Institute of Physics (IOP) in its aim to ensure all school students in the UK have access to high-quality physics teaching. After submitting a parliamentary question to the Department for Education and the introduction of an Early Day Motion on the issue of too few specialist physics [...]
Could physics help to avoid disasters like the Love Parade tragedy?
As Germany is mourning the death of the victims of the Love Parade mass panic, new strategies to evacuate events will be ever more important in the future. Andreas Schadschneider, a professor of theoretical physics at Cologne University, tells July’s Physics World readers about a new project that will model people as particles to make [...]
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Today’s physics news: Friday, 31 July 2010