Today’s physics news: Tuesday 9 February

Shadow science minister asserts inevitability of UK science cuts
In what the New Scientist refers to as a ‘throwaway’ remark, Adam Afriyie, the UK’s shadow science minister, has told the Evening Standard, “Right now, our country is virtually bankrupt, so major science budget cuts are inevitable.” The comment appears in a detailed article about the life of Afriyie.

Evening Standard
New Scientist

Raising the bar for teachers
Further to recommendations from the shadow education minster, Michael Gove MP, last year, the Children, Schools and Families select committee has now also recommended raising the bar for entry onto postgraduate teacher training courses.

Guardian

BBC

First LHC results published
The results from the highest-energy particle experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in December have begun to yield their secrets.   Scientists from the LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid detector have now totted up all of the resulting particle interactions and published their findings in IOP Publishing’s Journal of High Energy Physics.

BBC

US to create one-stop shop for climate-watchers
In what is seen as an attempt to salvage plummeting levels of public confidence in climate science, the Obama administration has founded a service to study and report on global warming.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will be a transparent “one-stop shop” for business, the public and officials seeking information on climate change.

Guardian