Episode 3 – The best instrument to study snow is your sleeve – with Jussi Tiira
In this episode we talk with Jussi Tiira, who studies snow precipitation at the University of Helsinki.
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Episode 2 – Cancer cells are anarchic – with Alok Jaiswal
In this episode we talk with Alok Jaiswal (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland) about his research on cancer cells.
Understanding something as simple as the Sun – A conversation with Lucie Green
Prof. Lucie Green is a solar physicist based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL’s Department of Space and Climate Physics. Besides being a great scientist, Lucie Green is also an inspiring science communicator and is very active in public engagement with science. She gives public talks regularly and is a television and radio host. In 2016, she published her first book 15 Million Degrees: A journey to the centre of the Sun, which discusses the history of solar physics until the current research and the “hot topics” of the field.
Episode 1 – I like lakes so I study lakes – with Joonatan Ala-Könni
In this episode we discuss and have fun with Joonatan Ala-Könni, who studies lakes at the Division of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Helsinki.
Can we predict solar superstorms?
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are spectacular eruptions coming from the Sun. They also are the major drivers of solar storms on Earth. Solar storms can cause disruptions to space- and ground-based technological systems. What are the factors that determine the ability of a CME to cause a solar storm? And what would happen if a solar superstorm (an exceptionally strong CME) would come to us? If you want to know more, check our latest TSB digest: “Can we predict solar superstorms?”
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a nutshell
There is a organization called the ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’ doing assessment of climate change.
The breaking up of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctic
A trillion-tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km and one of the biggest on record, calved away from the Larsen C Ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula between July 10 and 12, 2017.
Climate change month at the Science Basement
October is our Climate Change theme month. This month we would like to give you a little taste of Climate and Earth System Science and prepare you for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2017
Treating cancer using “living drugs”
Harnessing the body’s immune system to kill tumor cells. The treatment method, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell therapy involves reengineering the immune cells (T-cells) obtained from the patient’s blood and giving it back after genetic modification. The modified immune cells (CAR T-cells), are capable of recognizing tumor cells and kill them.
A look at an anatomy class in the 17th century
Have you ever wonder what a medical class looked like in medieval times? Wonder no more!