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Let’s Talk About Heat Shock Proteins (While Waiting for the Summer)

Do you sometimes wonder why scientists bother to study the development of fruit flies? Or why they care about how the cave fish has lost its eyes? Unfortunately, the relevance of research is not always apparent from the beginning. Sometimes it needs years, or even decades to understand the significance of certain findings! Here I want to tell the story of heat shock proteins – one out of many examples of how a study initially dismissed as irrelevant turned out to be a groundbreaking finding.

THIS NO.1 – COLD SNAP A.K.A SANTA’S REVENGE

The idea of ‘The Hot Important Science (THIS)’ comic strips was born in March 2018, Helsinki, Finland during an intensive brain storming session between a researcher and a designing student. THIS’s mission is to bring you topically scientific stories, discoveries etc. every month in an easy-to-read format. We do not want to tell you that we spent a whole month on creating the first post because we want you to be objective about THIS. But we do hope you enjoy reading them! Thank you and see you the next month!

Episode 19 – Nobody is allowed to steal plutonium – with Camille Bélanger-Champagne

In this episode we chat with Camille Bélanger-Champagne, post-doctoral researcher at the Helsinki Insitute of Physics. She works on instruments for nuclear safeguards, and the instrument she works on can be used by the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to check that facilities that handle nuclear power are using nuclear material for peaceful and civilian activies only.