The impact of our research on the climate crisis
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...
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Fighting the Equality Paradox in Finnish Science
(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,...
I didn’t know a physicist could look like you!
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...
SPEDE – novel instrument to probe exotic nuclei
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....
Cotutelle and collaboration agreement within HIP and CEA for nuclear material research
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...
Quantum physics and technologies: it’s time to inform society, at large.
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...
CERN, Finland and International relations
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...
Ramping up towards LHC Run 3
The CMS experiment is one of the four large experiments at the LHC. Since the beginning of data-taking in 2010, the CMS Collaboration has published more than 1100 scientific papers on a highly diverse...
The discovery of the Odderon
Elementary particle physics is about understanding the smallest constituents of matter and their interactions. To do so larger and larger particle colliders are being built to probe the structure of matter at smaller and...
On CMS open data, and numbers big and small
In July 2021, the open data group of the CMS experiment conducted the second CMS open data workshop aimed at physicists interested in research use of these unique public data. In the spirit of...
