Category: Science

1st July 2025 · PhDlife
1st July 2025 · PhDlife

Performing my first on-sky tests (in Hawaii at Keck Telescope)

by Rafael Salgueiro

As an adaptive optics (AO) researcher for ground-based telescopes, having the possibility to perform tests on-sky was a major accomplishment for me. These tests occurred in Hawaii in the Keck I telescope…

30th June 2025 · Science
30th June 2025 · Science

Rising Seas and What Isotopes have to do with it

by Franka Neumann

Earth, 20 000 years ago: the last glacial maximum. The air was about 5°C cooler than today, the sea level more than 100 meters lower. Creatures could walk from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge…