Today’s physics news: Thursday, 8 April

 
Beautiful Minds – Jocelyn Bell Burnell on BBC4 Last Night
The Guardian’s Tim Dowling is fascinated by a cosmic tale of a keen young astrophysicist and collapsing stars

Guardian 
 
The player: video games and the joy of physics
Attempting to recreate gravity, momentum and the other attributes of the real world has always been an integral part of the gaming world. But now that games have proved they can reproduce reality so beautifully, a more recent crop have played with physics in fascinating ways.

Guardian 
 
CryoSat-2 satellite prepares for mission to monitor climate change in Arctic
European Space Agency satellite to launch from Kazakhstan to measure Arctic and Antarctic ice with unprecedented precision

Guardian
BBC