Stories from May 2009
Lessons from Schön – the worst physics fraudster?
How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known?
Amendment to EPSRC’s policy for repeatedly unsuccessful applicants
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has amended its policy for repeatedly unsuccessful applicants
Getting girls into physics
With only 22 per cent of last year’s A-level physics exam entrants being female, school physics, as a key science subject and the cornerstone of engineering, needs to attract more girls
Breakthrough in radiotherapy promises targeted cancer treatment
Current radiation therapy treatment damages a patient’s healthy tissue as well as eradicating the tumour it is intended to destroy, making the treatment especially invasive and often causing nasty side effects
On the verge of a paradigm shift – space science in the UK
Three expert speakers attended an event organised by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Parliamentary Space Committee on Wednesday, 20 May, at the House of Commons, to address an audience comprised of MPs, Lords, academics and journalists about the state of space science in Europe and the UK on the day that the European Space Agency announced that British astronaut, Timothy Peake, is one of six European astronauts training for human spaceflight
Seeing beyond the invisible: Scientists find formula to uncover our planet’s past and help predict its future
Studies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information – lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable but scientists have created a formula which will fill in the gaps of our knowledge and will help predict the future
A global responsibility to help vulnerable communities adapt
For one international community – the 165,000 strong Inuit community dispersed across the Arctic coastline in small, remote coastal settlements in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia – it is already too late to prevent some of the negative effects of climate change
Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter
The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are today, Thursday, 28 May, launching a new report, ‘Particle physics – it matters’ to introduce a wider audience to the economic and societal benefits of particle physics research
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