by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Opinion
The national public discussion on the scientific endeavor these days exposes challenges that invite deep and critical reflections on how we value and how we measure the generation of knowledge. The process of knowledge generation for the majority of scientists is...
by admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Opinion
A few weeks ago I learned of the death -in May of this year and at the age of 86- of Mary K. Gaillard, a titan of theoretical particle physics, that which describes and predicts what happens to matter inside atoms and what things exist there. Today we understand...
by admin | Aug 7, 2025 | Opinion
Our universe is made primarily of matter, not anti-matter. We are made of atoms, not anti-atoms. However, antimatter exists. Since Paul Dirac, in 1928, wrote a famous equation that treats space and time in the same way...
by admin | Jul 28, 2025 | Opinion
Giovanna Cottin | Research Associate SAPHIR+ see more Muons are elementary particles similar to the electrons in our atoms. But they are not found in atoms. They rain down on us as a cascade of particles from the sky, as they are generated by the...
by admin | Jul 28, 2025 | Opinion
Giovanna Cottin | Associate Researcher SAPHIR+ see more Recently, the news that CERN, the European center for research in nuclear and particle physics, has accepted Chile as one of its member states has been highlighted in the national media....
