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Inauguration of the 2024-2025 ADMIRA Academic Year: Particle Physics in the Classroom
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CA
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.
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Particle Physics
‘La veu còsmica’ premieres its first episode, a podcast combining art and science
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CA
The podcast, available on YouTube, Spotify and Ivoox, features interviews with scientists to bring research in astrophysics and cosmology closer to the general public
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Dani Marín at the La Caravana program of Ràdio Estel
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CA
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.
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Gravitation
Dark Energy and the Expanding Universe
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CA
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.
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Cosmology
Double success at the IX CPAN Outreach Contest
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CA
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).
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Particle Physics
Listen to Toni Bertólez on the “Explica’m, Tresor” podcast
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CA
The ICCUB pre-doctoral researcher and scientific communicator Toni Bertólez is a guest seaker in the "Explica'm, Tresor" podcast.
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The ICCUB hosts the stay of the winners of the Extraordinary Baccalaureate Award 2021
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CA
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.
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The birth of Quantum Physics at Onda Cero
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CA
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.
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Hamamatsu Photonics presents the ADMIRA project with 24 photonics kits
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CA
The company Hamamatsu, world leader in photonics technology, has presented the schools members of the ADMIRA (Activitats amb Detectors Medipix per In
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Scientists bring us a step closer to understanding the nature of matter and antimatter
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CA
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?
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Particle Physics
ADMIRA PROJECT: Teaching particle physics at high school with Timepix detectors
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CA
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.
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Particle Physics
New research points toward the existence of “naked” singularities that encourage us to rethink the validity of General Relativity
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https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/
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CA
In an article published in BBC’s journal Sky at Night researchers, among which we find ICCUB’s Postdoc researcher Tomás Andrade, study the possible exist
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Cosmology
Gravitation