Stories from August 2009
More STEM students wanted
The Institute of Physics (IOP) welcomes the report published today by the House of Commons Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills, "Students and Universities"
Climate change poker: the barriers which are preventing a global agreement
As the world’s environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of climate negotiations is being revealed in an article published today, 5 August, 2009, in IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Letters
Scottish physics Higher entrants continue to increase
Good news for physics in Scotland today, Tuesday, 5 August, with a 2.7 per cent increase in the number of students taking the physics Higher
Physicists for jobs and jobs for physicists
A new website dedicated to physics graduates and industry professionals with a background in physics, www.brightrecruits.com, is now available to help physicists connect with top employers and help top employers connect with physicists
Beyond the looking glass …
While the researchers can’t promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman’s Dark Materials and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first tunable electromagnetic gateway
Study of 16 developing countries shows climate change could deepen poverty
A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such as annual-scale hot, dry and wet extremes
Physics: A-level entrant increase accelerates
This morning, 20 August, 2009, the Joint Council for Qualifications published results for 2009’s cohort of 805 657 A-level students which included particularly encouraging news for physics
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