Episode 22 – If a huge solar storm comes we can be left without social media – with Diana Morosan
This episode is all about our star, the Sun! We chat with Diana Morosan, postdoctoral researcher in Solar Physics at the University of Helsinki.
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Episode 21 – Shooting X-rays at things – with Ari-Pekka Honkanen
In this episode we chat with Ari-Pekka Honkanen, PhD student at the Materials Physics lab of the University of Helsinki. He studies the structure of materials by “shooting” X-rays at them!
Episode 20 – Epigenome, DNA, and pineapple on pizza – with Chiara Facciotto
In this episode we chat with Chiara Facciotto, PhD students at Biomedicum in Helsinki. She works on how epigenetics influences cancer response to therapy.
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.
Episode 18 – We are going to Mercury! – with Juhani Huovelin
In this episode we chat with Juhani Huovelin, who is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki and also the Principal Investigator of the Solar Intensity X-ray and particle Spectrometer (SIXS) instrument onboard the BepiColombo spacecraft.
Episode 17 – Looking for gravitational waves – with David Weir
In this episode we chat with David Weir, who is a University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He looks at gravitational waves from processes in the early Universe.
Summer Special – Science stories with the students from ICPS2018
In this episode, we are on a field trip at the International Conference of Physics Students 2018 and chat with some of the participants!
Astronomical Images: When people look at an atlas and see a photograph – A conversation with Joni Tammi
Since the early 20th century, astronomy has been evolving far beyond the optical telescope. While powerful optical telescopes are still very much a viable tool for astronomers, astronomical scientists are relying on new technologies, such as radio interferometry, to look deeper into space. Interferometry combines the results of several radio telescopes situated around the world to create a much bigger astronomical picture as if taken by a single telescope the size of Earth. In this TSB conversation, Joni Tammi, the director of Metsähovi Radio Observatory, discusses the evolution of imaging technologies in astronomy.
Episode 16 – Working with 4500 salmon – with Andrew House
In this episode, we talk with Andrew House about his research on fat composition in young species of Atlantic Salmon.
Episode 15 – How to brew stem cells – with Shibani Ratnayake
In this episode, we talk with Shibani Ratnayake about her research on stem cells (unspecialised cells that are in our body) and in particular on how growing stem cells is evolving into an automatised process.