Tag: Dark Matter
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INFN Experience at the European Researchers’ Night
The European Researchers’ Night is a festival that takes place for one night across Europe, featuring hands-on activities and science demonstrations organized by the INFN, as well as an escape game called HEPscape! They also host a series of events during the months before.
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Muon Detectives and HERA: Muon Research Opportunities for Australian Secondary Students
Muon Detectives is a collaborative project studying high-altitude muons. It makes use of EduMOD Classroom Muon Detectors to teach students about concepts ranging from special relativity to statistics. The HERA project is an international collaboration in which each participating team, consisting of a mentoring university and a high school, will launch high-altitude balloons equipped with…
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Dark Matter Schools program in Australia
The program aims to create a network of partner schools to address regional schools’ geography and resource limitations. It offers great opportunities to inspire students and provide relatable role models.
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Looking for new interactions with dark matter in Patagonia (an ice cream story)
María Belén Lovino engage in multiple projects in science communication, especially dark matter, through Card Games, Ice Cream, Comic Puzzle or Fashion (clothing). Her projects explore new ways to inject science, usually through a co-production with researchers and expert outside of the scientific field, like designers or artisans.
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National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip
The National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip is a travelling science show. During the Australian national science week, a dedicated team of scientists and science communicators travel to Schools and public spaces to take science around Australian Communities. In total, the road-tripping team drive more than 8,000 kilometres over two weeks, while delivering presentations,…
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Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) Project
The project tests a theory suggesting dark matter may consist of supermassive particles from the early Universe. Their decay should ultimately result in a large so called super-preshowers of photons, widely distributed across both space (an area larger than the Earth) and time (reaching different parts of the Earth at different times). CREDO make use…