Opening Address for the FCC Week 2026
This blog contains the opening speech in the FCC week in Helsinki in June 2026 by prof. Paula Eerola, President of the Research Council of Finland Distinguished Director-General,Excellencies,Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great honor to address you today at the FCC Week. I am…
The Next Frontier of Fundamental Physics
There is a rare occasion to hear a public talk of Director-General of CERN, professor Mark Thompson, in the University of Helsinki Think Corner on Tuesday 9.6. at 17:00. Please see University of Helsinki events calendar for further information. This event is organized in…
HIP Detector Laboratory upgrade – cleaner, colder, and better controlled measurements
The HIP Detector Laboratory has recently gone through a major upgrade of its clean rooms and laboratory spaces. The work brings long needed improvements to a facility that supports detector development for projects such as the CMS upgrade, ALICE, MoEDAL and other research…
Code of the Universe exhibition touring Finland sets the stage for FCC Week 2026 in Helsinki
These are not only questions for physicists working at CERN. They are questions that belong to everyone. This spring and summer, they will be brought into public space in Finland through Code of the Universe, a travelling open-air exhibition that combines large-scale…
Ydinfysiikan väitöskirjatutkija työkomennuksella Saksan FAIR-kiihdytinlaboratoriossa
Ulkomailla työskentely ydinfysiikantutkimuksen parissa on paljon muutakin kuin pelkkää data-analyysiä. Se sisältää yhteistyötä eri alan asiantuntijoiden kanssa sekä mahdollistaa käytännön työskentelyn kansainvälisessä kiihdytinlaboratoriossa. Se on sukellus erilaiseen…
Elektroneja, ytimiä ja monen kappaleen ongelma
Olemme tulleet noin sata vuotta kvanttimekaniikan synnystä ja kiivaan alkuvaiheen kehityksen jälkeen teorian perusteet ovat olleet likimain muuttumattomia. Heti alkumetreillä todettiin, että muutaman symbolin Schrödingerin yhtälö kuvaa hyvin merkittävää osaa maailmasta, mutta…
n_TOF experiment sheds light on ancient stardust
August 19, 2026
Niobium-94, an isotope of niobium with 41 protons and 53 neutrons, is a critical crossroads in the complex nuclear processes that forge…
Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter
July 24, 2026
One year on from the first-ever collisions of oxygen at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main LHC Collaborations – ALICE, ATLAS,…
HiLumi LHC: new magnets reach full power
July 21, 2026
The test bench for the High-Luminosity LHC, the IT (Inner Triplet) String facility, has reached a major milestone. On 8 July, its…
The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on
July 20, 2026
Seventy years ago today, Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines and their colleagues closed a quarter-century hunt with a paper in Science, having caught…
CMS explores subtle matter–antimatter difference using beauty mesons
July 17, 2026
The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter…
SIBAF project at GSI/FAIR: €9.7 million in funding for innovative fusion materials research and accelerator development
20.08.2026 |
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the new project SIBAF (Supraleitender Ionenbeschleuniger als BAsistechnologie für die…
Where do gold and platinum come from? Darmstadt researchers improve models for how heavy elements are created
17.08.2026 |
This news is based on a press release fromTechnical University of Darmstadt
GSI/FAIR shows its colors — for diversity, respect, and solidarity
14.08.2026 |
To mark Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Darmstadt on 15 August 2026, the rainbow flag was once again raised on the GSI…
Fraunhofer IGD launches powerful GPU cluster
11.08.2026 |
This news is based on a press release by Fraunhofer IGD
Laser spectroscopy helps reveal hidden nuclear properties in fermium
10.08.2026 |
Joint press release of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, GSI/FAIR, and HÜBNER Photonics GmbH (Germany) together with the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)