Today’s physics news: Thursday, 7 January

BBC Trust to review science coverage

The accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s science coverage, including eco-issues such as global warming, are to be investigated by the BBC Trust.
The Guardian

Britain must launch GM food revolution, says chief scientist

Britain must embrace genetically modified crops and cutting-edge developments such as nanotechnology to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government’s chief scientist warned.
The Guardian

Ofsted under fire from MPs

Schools are being overburdened by targets, complex Government initiatives and too many check-ups by different inspectorates, a committee of MPs will say today.
The Times
BBC News

EU to award Galileo satellite-navigation contracts

Galileo, Europe’s much delayed and costly satellite-navigation project, takes a major step forward today as the first contracts are being awarded to the companies that will start to build the operational network.
BBC News

Nobel laureates: don’t put money before science

Thousands of scientists and academics, including six Nobel laureates and a former government chief scientist, today condemn plans to change the rules on scientific funding.
The Independent