Today’s physics news: Monday, 26 July 2010

Academies will leave pupils ‘unprepared for modern life’, say critics
The Campaign for Science and Engineering argues the coalition’s education reforms will lead to inadequate teaching of English, maths and science
Guardian 
 
Dark matter hunt eyes deeper home
Scientists are looking to relocate an underground experiment searching for dark matter to an even deeper site.
BBC 
 
LHC closes in on massive particle
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have seen several candidates for the heaviest elementary particle known to science
BBC

Cern scientists plan new atom collider
Scientists from CERN – the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – will spell out their ambitions at a conference in Paris today.
Independent
Daily Mail