Today’s physics news: Thursday, 28 October 2010

Harsh cuts will wreck Scotland’s universities, the appliance of science lobbying and coming soon: LHC for molecules.
Harsh cuts will wreck Scotland’s universities, say chiefs
The international reputation of Scottish higher education will be devastated if funding is slashed in next month’s Holyrood budget, and the introduction of a graduate payment scheme later will not offset swingeing cuts, university heads claim today.
Times 
 
The appliance of science lobbying
The government’s apparently last-minute decision to guarantee a flat-cash research budget has been widely hailed as a victory for a coordinated lobbying effort by the science community
THE 
 
Coming soon: LHC for molecules
Charged particles are easy to accelerate in the Large Hadron Collider because they respond to electromagnetic fields. Now researchers have made an LHC for electrically neutral molecules that could help probe chemical reactions
New Scientist