This year there were around 600 Y Science attendees, and plenty of ideas for different science-based businesses were heard. There were 3 sessions, focusing on Health & Pharma, Food Systems, and Environment & Forest.
intervieweeAndreas Nyholm has a background in geophysics and for almost 10 years he has worked as a weatherman—the kind you see on television every evening. He was headhunted on live… Read More »A Cool Career in a Hot Field: Andreas Predicts the Weather and Conveys it with Augmented Reality
On May 16 The Science Basement had the chance to interview Massimiano Bucchi, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Trento and editor of the international journal Public Understanding… Read More »Communicating Science – A conversation with Massimiano Bucchi
It may be that not all black holes have formed in the usual way: massive stars collapsing under
their gravitational pressure. During the Big Bang, large enough inhomogeneities in matter density
may have led to formation of microscopical “primordial black holes”, which might have survived
until the present day. They may help to explain a ghost in the universe, the mysterious dark matter.
Dr. David Rabanus worked as array maintenance manager for the world’s largest telescope, ALMA, in the Atacama desert in Chile. ALMA observes parts of the night sky that regular telescopes can not access and since its opening astronomy has been enriched with new discoveries. Read here about how it is to work at an observatory 5000 meters above sea level.
Popular game apps are the perfect combination of simplicity for the user and complexity from the creator. A kind of perfect outreach.
An unusual encounter in an intercity train in Russia turned into an adventure of exploring the topic of artistic research. How do artists do research? Explained by a physicist.
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.
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.
Scott Gilbert is a Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at Swarthmore College, where he has taught developmental genetics, embryology, and the history and critiques of biology. He is the author of various textbooks such as ‘Developmental Biology’ and ‘Ecological Developmental Biology’. One of his research interests is how the turtle got its shell.