On the 13th of September a group of secondary school teachers, students and scientists from the University of Barcelona and CERN gathered for a workshop to inaugurate the academic year 2024-2025 of the ADMIRA initiative. The ADMIRA initiative is an activity with the objective to bring state of the art hybrid pixel detectors developed by the Medipix collaborations to secondary school classes.

The pre-doctoral researcher of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona Dani Marín, accompanied the program La Caravana of Ràdio Estel last Wednesday, December 7 to talk about the discovery of the black hole that is closest to Earth, 1,600 light years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus or Serpentarius.

ICCUB pre-doctoral researcher Cristian Moreno was at the Castelldefels Digital studios talking about dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the Universe last November 17.

Two projects with the participation of members of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) have been awarded at the IX Outreach Contest of the CPAN (National Center for Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics).

The ICCUB pre-doctoral researcher and scientific communicator Toni Bertólez is a guest seaker  in the "Explica'm, Tresor" podcast.

The Institut of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) hosted the stay of two winners of the Extraordinary Baccalaureate Awards 2021, Marina Burjalés and Ignasi Lloveras.

ICCUB PhD student and scientific popularizer Toni Bertólez was last Tuesday, August 9, on the programme La Brúixola d'Estiu of the Spanish Radio Station Onda Cero, where he talked about quantum physics.

The company Hamamatsu, world leader in photonics technology, has presented the schools members of the ADMIRA (Activitats amb Detectors Medipix per In

The LHCb Collaboration has recently presented new results that could bring us a step closer to understanding the different nature of matter and antimatter at a fundamental level and solve one of the longest-standing cosmological questions: Why is the Universe mainly made of matter?

The ADMIRA project published yesterday, January 19, its first scientific paper “ADMIRA Project: teaching particle physics at high school with Timepix detectors” on the Physics Education IOP  journal.

Jayashree Balakrishna (HSSU) and Ruxandra Bondarescu (ICCUB), two world class scientists, and an 11-year-old have written the perfect educational book that everyone will enjoy.  Illustrations by the 11-year old make the book even more endearing.  This work combines science and poetry to open your eyes to the amazing world of everyday birds