Archive for the ‘Physics around the UK’ Category
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Today’s physics news: Cassini prepares to take a new Pale Blue Dot image of Earth; physicists find a ‘new and mysterious’ particle
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Today’s physics news: Europe’s Herschel telescope switched off, as ExoMars missions set for 2016 launch
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Student teacher: Learning to teach is harder than doing three PhDs
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Dileep V. Sathe:
Dear Beth, I am glad to know that you are interested in physics. So I am telling -
Robert Llewellyn:
I want to state right off the bat that I come from the extreme opposite end of t -
Helen Mason:
Find out more about the Sun, solar flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, CMEs and thei
