Today’s physics news: Monday, 28 June

High-flying professional women change careers to teach science
Figures published today indicate that the recession and financial rewards for new teachers in priority subjects have halted years of decline in numbers of women applying to teach maths and science.
 
Times 
 
LHC smashes beam collision record
The world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has produced a record-breaking particle collision rate. The collider is now generating around 10,000 particle collisions per second.

BBC

Atlantis astronauts begin tour of the UK
The six-strong NASA Atlantis crew will be in Portsmouth – their first stop today of a UK tour – fresh from a 12-day space flight on the shuttle Atlantis

Independent

Hotspots leave magnetic scars on Mars
Puzzling ‘stripes’ generate another controversial origin theory.
 
Nature

Schrödinger’s kit: Tools that are in two places at once
A new generation of tiny machines are in a super position to unlock the mysteries of quantum mechanics
 
New Scientist