Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 29 June

Record numbers apply to teach science and maths
Recession drives thousands more graduates to register for training, after coalition promises teaching jobs will be safe from cuts

Guardian
Independent 
 
German TanDEM-X satellite returns first images
Germany’s new radar satellite, TanDEM-X, has returned its first images.The spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan on Monday on a mission to make the most precise 3D map of the Earth’s surface.
 
BBC
Daily Mail

‘UK cannot go on relying on foreign fuel’
Greg Barker, the Climate Change Minister, talks about the Coalition’s plans to give Britain its own supply of clean energy.
 
Telegraph 
 
Edward Witten wins Newton medal
String theory pioneer Edward Witten has won the 2010 Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics

Physics World 
 
Islamic science: The revival begins here
The Royal Society has published the first report based on its Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation Project

New Scientists