Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 2 June

Secretary of State for Nuclear Legacy and Bits of Other Things bemoans Labour’s legacy
Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has referred to his department as the “Department for Nuclear Legacy and Bits of Other Things” as he discovers a £4 billion black hole in unavoidable decommissioning and nuclear waste costs, while will leave his department with little financial scope to do anything else.

Guardian

Tackling the big unanswered physics questions
Anil Ananthaswamy, author of The Edge of Physics, introduces Times’ Eureka Zone blog readers to big unanswered physics questions such as what is dark matter and how can Einstein’s general relativity be reconciled with quantum mechanics.

Times