Today’s physics news: Friday, 3 September

Hawking: Archbishop leads religious response
Religious leaders united yesterday in a fightback against Stephen Hawking’s assertion that science leaves no role for God in the creation of the Universe.
Times
Guardian
Telegraph 
 
Changes spotted in fundamental constant
Quasars suggest fine-structure constant differed billions of years ago at opposite ends of universe
Physics World 
 
‘Lost years’ end for backyard supernova
Data from repaired Hubble telescope uncover new secrets about our nearest supernova.
Nature

Physicists divided over life extension for US collider
A panel of physicists recommends keeping Fermilab’s Tevatron collider alive for an extra three years, but others worry about collateral damage
New Scientist