Today’s physics news: Thursday, 4 March

Interstellar dust caught
Volunteers inspecting images captured by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft may have identified pieces of interstellar dust – fundamental building blocks of the solar system.  The discovery could mark the beginning of an analysis of what stars and planets are really made of.

Nature

Wales to have its own learned society
Welsh academics are aiming to create their own version of the Royal Society with the launch of the first Learned Society for Wales. The society, which will be based in Cardiff, will promote learning and scholarship and disseminate Welsh research.

THE

Growing dominance of the privately educated in postgrad research
In a blow to widening participation, a study by the London School of Economics has found a small but growing gap between the postgraduate participation rates of otherwise like-for-like private school and state school students.

THE