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Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 23 June
Budget 2010: Green policies ‘sidelined’, campaigners say Green groups disappointed after chancellor reveals no further details on plans for a green investment bank or home energy-efficiency schemes Guardian Europe’s next-gen polar weather satellites twin up The next-generation of Europe’s polar orbiting weather satellites will fly in a two-spacecraft configuration. BBC God particle signal [...]
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Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 22 June
The hunt for the God particle We have all heard of ‘dark matter’. But what about dark galaxies, dark planets – even dark people? The Guardian reports on the new holy grail of physics. Guardian Topological quintet bags Europhysics prize Five physicists who brought us the quantum spin-Hall effect and topological insulators have [...]
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Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 9 June
German space escapes budget cuts Professor Jan Woerner, chairman of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), says he does not expect space to be affected by the nation’s big austerity drive. BBC British scientists launch major radio telescope The universities of Portsmouth, Oxford and Southampton are joining forces with experts from around the country [...]
Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 8 June
Primary curriculum and academic diplomas to be axed The government will scrap Labour’s new primary curriculum and its flagship “academic” diplomas, ministers said today as they detailed a £359m programme of education cuts. Guardian Telegraph Independent Lasers could ‘sense’ vapours released by explosives UK scientists claim to have developed laser technology able to [...]
Today’s physics news: Thursday, 24 June