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Five years sharing knowledge under construction in bars, and a book

Posted on 13 October, 2020 by Sérgio Pereira

In October, it is five years since an audience in Lisbon started monthly conversations about current academic research in a bar. Continue reading →

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Stars that shine through time (#IAU100)

Posted on 5 April, 2020 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

Posted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Waves in thin air with wide effects

Posted on 21 March, 2020 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

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PubhD de Lisboa has grown as a team

Posted on 29 February, 2020 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

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Discover the Universe through 31 works of art

Posted on 4 January, 2020 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

Posted in Art, Astronomy & Astrophysics

The science of CHEOPS

Posted on 21 December, 2019 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

Posted in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space sciences

Unveiling new Earths among the “noise” of the stars

Posted on 21 December, 2019 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

Posted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

PubhD de Lisboa special: the physics of the extremely small

Posted on 30 November, 2019 by Sérgio Pereira

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 →

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A podcast from Venus

Posted on 19 October, 2019 by Sérgio Pereira

Research on Venus is using instruments planned to study worlds outside the Solar System, but may also give insights into how to best used them in the search of those worlds. An audio programme as part of my work at … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

From Venus to other worlds

Posted on 12 October, 2019 by Sérgio Pereira

Unprecedented precision in the measurements of winds on Venus made use of an instrument built to study exoplanets, in a work led by researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Full details at IA’s press-release. (in Portuguese … Continue reading →

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