Today’s physics news: Engineering prize to be worth £1m, shining moment for maths and science, and more

Today’s physics news: Engineering prize to be worth £1m, shining moment for maths and science, and more

Engineering prize to be worth £1m
A £1m prize – named after the Queen – will be awarded for exceptional advances in engineering
BBC

Shining moment for maths
Warm words for humanities and languages, but it is sciences that the state want to push in schools
Guardian

Discovery of Higgs could turn LHC into white elephant
The Large Hadron Collider risks becoming a £6 billion white elephant once the search for the Higgs boson is complete, the man who first proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” has suggested
Telegraph

Video: Nasa ‘find water’ on Europa
Nasa says it has found evidence of a vast salt water lake just under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa – a potential location for alien life
Independent