Physics World October 2014

Closer and closer: Rosetta gets set for comet landing

Highlights this month include a look at Europe’s Rosetta mission, which is set to land a probe on a comet for the very first time; an analysis of whether pulsars could be used to detect gravitational waves; and a great feature by University of Maryland physicist James Gates, who insists that although CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has so far seen no signs of supersymmetry, the search for SUSY must go on. Also, don’t miss Margaret Harris’s in-depth study of the “STEM shortage paradox” – the curious fact that many employers in the UK say they are struggling to find enough good people with science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM) backgrounds, whereas at the same time lots of physics graduates are finding it hard to get jobs. So is there a really a “STEM shortage”, or do STEM graduates have the wrong skills, aren’t good enough or want to work in other fields?

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