by Patricio Grunert | Mar 29, 2026 | Popular science articles, News
High in northern Chile, where the sky is so clear that it seems to magnify the universe, something invisible yet constant is taking place: a shower of particles from space is passing through Earth’s atmosphere. These are cosmic rays, messengers of phenomena...
by Patricio Grunert | Nov 19, 2024 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
Dr. Sergey Kuleshov, Director of SAPHIR, is appointed Collaboration Board Chair of the NA-64 experiment at CERN Professor Sergey Kuleshov was appointed Collaboration Board Chair of the NA-64 experiment at CERN. Highlighting the scientific and management quality of the...
by Victoria Lobos | May 31, 2024 | Outreach articles, CERN, News, What's New
The Division of Science, Energy, Education, Innovation and Astronomy (Decyti) of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited our Institute. In a visit to our facilities at the Andrés Bello University, we shared with the delegation our...
by Victoria Lobos | Nov 16, 2023 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
The science outreach group, Niñas Atómicas, was part of the stands that made up the fair. In addition, our deputy director and UC academic, Francisca Garay, presented her experience as a scientist and in higher education. A science fair organized by...
by Victoria Lobos | Oct 19, 2023 | Outreach articles, News
In the field of physics, advances and discoveries continue to amaze us. One of the most intriguing aspects of this discipline is the phenomenology of the elementary particles that form the basis of all the objects that surround us. These advances have...
by bicubic | Jul 15, 2022 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
Saphir Millennium Institute postdoctoral researcher Pedro Urrejola talks about his passion for particle physics and the goals of his research. He says that in order to discover new particles and extend the standard model, it is not enough to...
