Archive for the ‘Physics around the world’ Category
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, [...]
Cloak and dragon: two scientific cultures meet
The Beijing morning was cold as the Joint Institute of Physics and Chinese Physics Society Workshop kicked off in December, but this was easily countered by the very warm welcome from our Chinese hosts and the hot topic of this joint workshop: Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, a topic familiar to most as one that might, someday, [...]
Our top 5 physics moments of 2012
2012 has been a busy year for physics. With the impending end of the world (only a day to go now!) we thought we’d better get our round up of the year’s top physics moments in before it’s too late. No physics round up of 2012 could start with anything other than… we found the Higgs! In particle physics speak, [...]
Will the world end on Friday? Jocelyn Bell Burnell thinks not
The world isn’t going to end on Friday. And we suspect the Mayans would have agreed with us on that. But, just in case you’re not quite convinced, we asked Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, ex-President of the Institute of Physics and seasoned speaker on all things apocalyptic, to tell us a bit about some [...]
Physics-based businesses boost Irish economy
Did you know that whilst only 4.5% of Ireland’s workforce is employed in physics-based businesses they are contributing 5.9% to the economy in gross value added? That’s 86,000 people adding €7 billion to the economy. If you include indirect jobs (jobs that rely on the physics ones), a further 119,000 jobs are supported by physics [...]
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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
June 17, 2013 15:06
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