The Finnish Physical Society (FPS) was founded in 1947 to promote research and public knowledge in physics and support integrity of physicists in Finland. The history of the FPS was summarized in connection with...

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) is known for its slogan – Land of the Curious, and it lives up to it, LUT is a pioneering engineering university in Finland, bringing together the fields of...

Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP has two traditional communal ways of welcoming summer – a grill party for the HIP CERN summer trainees at CERN and a summer trip for the HIP community in...

There is also a Finnish version available (machine translated, ChatGPT). In an earlier blog post (in Finnish) I introduced the basics of dark matter and the direct detection experiments that are looking for signals...

There is also a Finnish version available (DeepL translated). On Sunday evening of March 4th, 15 members of the HIP CMS Programme set off on a train towards Kolari, with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station...

Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) participates in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ALICE, CMS and TOTEM. HIP collaborates with CSC – IT Center for Science on providing Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) resources....

HIP members are working with a UK-based collaboration in a new project to use superfluid helium as laboratory testbed for cosmology. The collaboration, Quantum-Enhanced Superfluid Technology for Dark Matter and Cosmology (QUEST-DMC), exploits the...

Neutrinos were ”invented” by Pauli in 1930 as a ”desperate remedy” to explain the beta-decay spectrum without giving up energy conservation. That was a time when inventing particles was almost sinful, and Pauli himself...

In summer 2023 the average daily sea surface temperature was 0.8°C above the mean for this time of the year (more than 4σ deviation), while the Antarctic ice extent was at its lowest ever...

(NUTS, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, is an EU standard referencing the administrative divisions of counties) Finland is one of the most equal countries in the world and in the European Union. However,...

In July 2016, I had the privilege of participating as a student in the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) held in Kigali, Rwanda. It was there that I had a lot...

CERN restaurant #1, November 2009. I sat down with Professors Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä) and Peter Butler (University of Liverpool, UK) to discuss about a research idea employing post-accelerated beams at ISOLDE, CERN....

Securing sufficient and environmentally sustainable electricity production is one of the main sustainable development challenges for our future. European’s electricity production relies on multiple sources including nuclear power. In particular, four nuclear reactors situated...

Nowadays, when people talk or write about quantum technologies, they mean a wide range of devices that function, in their essence, by exploiting quantum effects. Indeed, the progress made in this field has been...

Basic physics research is global in nature. It establishes laws that are valid everywhere on Earth, and apparently in the whole Universe. The research is mostly not driven by short term commercial or military...