Para conhecer a história e a atividade dos PubhD e do PubhD de Lisboa, e uma conversa sobre Comunicação de Ciência, ouça o terceiro episódio do podcast ComCiência, na companhia de Natércia das Neves Rodrigues Lopes. Continue reading
Supercomputers are clearing up the Venus’ skies
The air is rushing, faster than sound, 130 kilometres above the surface, blasting from the east, but is suddenly hampered at night fall, compressed into a shock. It could happen in the atmosphere of Venus, but is actually a days-long simulation running on supercomputers, in France, where it was initially developed, but also in Portugal, the United States and Canada. Continue reading
Five years sharing knowledge under construction in bars, and a book
In October, it is five years since an audience in Lisbon started monthly conversations about current academic research in a bar. Continue reading
Stars that shine through time (#IAU100)
The last in the series “Estrelas que brilham no tempo” (Stars that shine through time) was dedicated to Beatrice Tinsley. The 11 articles (in Portuguese) are available on the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) website, remembering 13 … Continue reading
Waves in thin air with wide effects
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of ours on Earth, and gravity pulls with little more than one third of the strength we feel on our planet. As a result, dust storms can go … Continue reading
PubhD de Lisboa has grown as a team
Since last year, we’ve been growing the team developing and delivering PubhD de Lisboa sessions. We are now six people passionate about a project I started in 2015, based on PubhD Nottingham. From contacting speakers, publishing content on the website … Continue reading
Discover the Universe through 31 works of art
Take a tour through works of art with references to the Universe, in painting, literature, music and cinema. The bilingual website “Do the stars gaze back – Art inspired by the Universe” connects these works to landmark events in the … Continue reading
The science of CHEOPS
A new ESA mission to characterize planets already known orbiting other stars, but of which we still know little, was launched on December 2019. This is the video interview to Sérgio Sousa, one of the scientists involved in the planning … Continue reading
Unveiling new Earths among the “noise” of the stars
First data gathered with ESPRESSO, an instrument built with the participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), help clarify a debate about an hypothetical planetary system. Full details at IA’s press-release. (in Portuguese only) Part of my … Continue reading
PubhD de Lisboa special: the physics of the extremely small
In December, the regular session of PubhD de Lisboa will have two speakers from LIP talking about the search for unexpected new particles, and machine learning applied to particle physics. This is the 40th session of an initiative I launched … Continue reading