Today’s Physics News: Tuesday 8 March 2011

In today’s news round-up: Female physicists make top 100 UK women; fair access defined; GPS fears; and new method for imaging.

Physicists Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Athene Donald and Fabiola Gianotti make the Guardian’s Top 100 women
On this International Women’s Day, IOP President and discoverer of pulsars, Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, expert in the structure of soft matter, Professor Athene Donald, and the physicist leading the team working on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, Fabiola Gianotti, have made the Guardian’s top 100 women list.

Guardian 
BBC

Office for Fair Access lays out what universities must do to justify £9k fees
Universities that want to charge more than £6,000 will have to draw up an agreement with the Office for Fair Access (Offa) stating how they will widen their pool of applicants.  Some of the most selective universities may need to double their spend on widening access and come up with targets for taking teenagers from low-income homes, from under-represented ethnic-minority backgrounds, or with disabilities.

Guardian

Daily Telegraph

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Engineers decry over-dependance on GPS
Industrialised society has become “dangerously over-reliant” on satellite navigation and timing signals, which are vulnerable to disruption by jamming devices or acts of nature such as solar storms, research by the Royal Academy of Engineering has found.

FT

BBC

Daily Mail

‘Light sheets’ image life in 3D
A report in Nature Methods describes how “light sheets” allow researchers to take images of cellular processes in action, in unprecedented detail.

BBC