Posts Tagged ‘Higgs boson’
Today’s physics news: Friday, 23 July 2010
Science exam too easy, says regulator GCSE science exam sat last summer did not test students adequately, Ofqual reports Guardian Telegraph Web-crawling computers will soon be calling the shots in science Within a decade, computers will be able to plough through scientific data looking for patterns and connections – then tell scientists what they should [...]
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 21 July
Easy GCSEs ‘a ploy to please parents eager for A grades’ Exam boards are keeping GCSEs at a “meaninglessly easy” level to please middle-class parents and protect their multimillion-pound textbook industry, according Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry Times UK space industry boosted by historic agreement with Russia Britain’s space industry [...]
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 14 July
Cut student places not funding, says university chief Protect research even if second rate colleges have to close, says UCL head Guardian Times Chaos theory and divine action The Guardian on physicist John Polkinghorne and why he is often accused of offering up a God-of-the-gaps argument Guardian Higgs boson discovery rumour denied [...]
Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 13 July
Women students stick to traditional subjects Women still favour ‘feminine’ subjects and careers over engineering, science and maths, despite efforts to change this Guardian Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron ‘has found Higgs boson’, say rumours Rumours are emerging from the rival to the Large Hadron Collider that the Higgs boson, or so-called “God particle”, [...]
