Call for Atomic Girl Mentors 2025

Call for Atomic Girl Mentors 2025

Atomic Girls is an initiative of the Millennium Institute SAPHIR that seeks to bring the scientific world closer to girls through the learning of transversal skills applied to science, such as programming, electronics and scientific methodology, by means of the...

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French Ambassador visits SAPHIR's offices at UNAB

French Ambassador visits SAPHIR's offices at UNAB

Today, Friday, March 21, authorities from the French Embassy, headed by its Ambassador, Mr. Cyrille Rogeau, and the French Counselor for Cooperation and Cultural Action, Mr. Patrick Flot, visited part of SAPHIR's laboratories, located in the French city of Paris....

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SAPHIR scientists are part of "HEPNP 2025".

SAPHIR scientists are part of "HEPNP 2025".

These days (January 6-10), the city of Valparaiso, renowned for its cultural richness, becomes the epicenter of particle physics by hosting the prestigious international conference "The 9th International Conference on High Energy Particle and Nuclear...

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OPINION COLUMNS

Beauty that breaks the symmetry of the cosmos

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...

How muons science girls

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...

Chile's arrival at CERN

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....

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