Today’s physics news: Thursday, 22 July 2010

Biggest star on record found in neighbouring galaxy
Astronomers say colossal star known as R136a1 is more than 265 times more massive than the sun
Guardian
Astronomer royal Martin Reese
Times
Telegraph
Independent 
 
Graduate tax proposal ‘rejected’
The coalition government will reject the idea of a graduate tax to pay for university fees in England, suggests a senior Conservative source.
BBC
Independent 
 
Scientists find even more evidence of water on the moon
Analysis of moon rock suggests that a chemically altered form of water is bound up within a volcanic lunar mineral.
Daily Mail
 
Physicists defend coffers from a raid by engineers
Particle physicists have hit back at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s claim that some of the funding that goes to pure sciences should be redirected to engineering to boost the UK’s economic recovery
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