Today’s physics news: Monday, 29 March

Rajendra Pachauri: Climate scientists face ‘new form of persecution’
The head of the UN’s climate change panel has accused politicians and prominent climate sceptics of “a new form of persecution” against scientists who work on global warming.
 
The Guardian
 
Dawkins attacked for ‘scientific fundamentalism’
The “scientific fundamentalism” promoted by the atheist Richard Dawkins was criticised yesterday by Professor Francisco Ayala, who won the £1 million Templeton Prize for scientific thought, a prize Dawkins had attacked.

The Times 
 
Tiny cube to tackle space debris
UK researchers have developed a device to drag space debris out of orbit.Their “CubeSail” is a small satellite cube that deploys a thin, 25-sq-m plastic sheet.

BBS News