Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 9 June

German space escapes budget cuts
Professor Jan Woerner, chairman of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), says he does not expect space to be affected by the nation’s big austerity drive.
 
BBC 
 
British scientists launch major radio telescope
The universities of Portsmouth, Oxford and Southampton are joining forces with experts from around the country to construct the first major radio telescope to be built in the UK for decades.

Telegraph
Videos add to mystery of missing Iranian nuclear scientist

Relations between Iran and the United States worsen over the mystery of a missing Iranian nuclear scientist and two conflicting videos, one saying he is being kept in the US against his will and the other suggesting that on the contrary he is happily studying in America.

Independent