Science classrooms (even in the time of the pandemic) should provide more challenging, inquiry-based, authentic and higher-order learning experiences allowing students to participate in scientific practices and tasks. Rich scientific databases, e-Learning tools and digital educational resources can serve as a catalyst for science learning. They can offer a better understanding of complex scientific research, making science understandable and interesting to the students.
{"title":"Inquiry-based Science Education and e-Learning","authors":"Sofoklis A. Sotiriou","doi":"10.1051/EPN/2021204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EPN/2021204","url":null,"abstract":"Science classrooms (even in the time of the pandemic) should provide more challenging, inquiry-based, authentic and higher-order learning experiences allowing students to participate in scientific practices and tasks. Rich scientific databases, e-Learning tools and digital educational resources can serve as a catalyst for science learning. They can offer a better understanding of complex scientific research, making science understandable and interesting to the students.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80638967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Since then, a comprehensive program has been ongoing to characterize it as precisely as possible. Can this particle help us solve some of the big open questions in physics?
{"title":"Mass matters: Latest Higgs boson results from the LHC","authors":"S. Heim","doi":"10.1051/EPN/2021205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EPN/2021205","url":null,"abstract":"The Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Since then, a comprehensive program has been ongoing to characterize it as precisely as possible. Can this particle help us solve some of the big open questions in physics?","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80670773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the last decade perovskite solar cells have shown remarkable improvements in power conversion efficiency which have driven the interest to commercialise the perovskite technology. Here, I will present an overview of our recent works focused on the development and the understanding of highly efficient co-evaporated perovskite solar cells with excellent thermal stability and remarkable upscalability. Our works demonstrate the compatibility of perovskite technology with consolidated industrial processes and its potential for next-generation photovoltaics on the market
{"title":"Perovskite Solar Mini-Modules","authors":"A. Bruno","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021501","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade perovskite solar cells have shown remarkable improvements in power conversion efficiency which have driven the interest to commercialise the perovskite technology. Here, I will present an overview of our recent works focused on the development and the understanding of highly efficient co-evaporated perovskite solar cells with excellent thermal stability and remarkable upscalability. Our works demonstrate the compatibility of perovskite technology with consolidated industrial processes and its potential for next-generation photovoltaics on the market","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81703266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In labs across Europe physicists are pushing the boundaries of how far we can cool the electrons in nano-fabricated circuits and quantum-enhanced devices. The cryogen-free revolution in dilution refrigeration has liberated researchers from a reliance on helium, a costly and non-renewable resource, and hugely expanded the numbers of cooling machines available for new science and quantum technology applications which exploit the properties of materials at kelvin and millikelvin temperatures.
{"title":"Breaking the millikelvin barrier in nanoelectronics","authors":"R. Haley, J. Prance, D. Zumbühl","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021406","url":null,"abstract":"In labs across Europe physicists are pushing the boundaries of how far we can cool the electrons in nano-fabricated circuits and quantum-enhanced devices. The cryogen-free revolution in dilution refrigeration has liberated researchers from a reliance on helium, a costly and non-renewable resource, and hugely expanded the numbers of cooling machines available for new science and quantum technology applications which exploit the properties of materials at kelvin and millikelvin temperatures.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87720736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neutrinos, the lightest entities of the Standard Model of particle physics, can traverse matter like no other known particle. The advent of a new generation of neutrino telescopes is turning these elusive messengers into a new probe to investigate the structure and composition of the deep Earth.
{"title":"Probing the earth’s interior with neutrinos","authors":"V. Elewyck, J. Coelho, É. Kaminski, L. Maderer","doi":"10.1051/EPN/2021103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/EPN/2021103","url":null,"abstract":"Neutrinos, the lightest entities of the Standard Model of particle physics, can traverse matter like no other known particle. The advent of a new generation of neutrino telescopes is turning these elusive messengers into a new probe to investigate the structure and composition of the deep Earth.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80507905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the decades-old quest to uncover the nature of the enigmatic dark matter, cryogenic detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivities. Searching for tiny signals from dark matter particles scattering in materials cooled down to low temperatures, these experiments look out into space from deep underground. Their ambitious goal is to discover non-gravitational interactions of dark matter and to scan the allowed parameter space until interactions from solar and cosmic neutrinos are poised to take over.
{"title":"Cryogenic Dark Matter Searches","authors":"L. Baudis","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021304","url":null,"abstract":"In the decades-old quest to uncover the nature of the enigmatic dark matter, cryogenic detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivities. Searching for tiny signals from dark matter particles scattering in materials cooled down to low temperatures, these experiments look out into space from deep underground. Their ambitious goal is to discover non-gravitational interactions of dark matter and to scan the allowed parameter space until interactions from solar and cosmic neutrinos are poised to take over.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81564756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Low temperature phenomena and methods are quantum thermodynamics per se. Modern engineered quantum systems, for instance those used for superconducting quantum information processing and mesoscopic electron transport, provide working media for realizing devices such as quantum heat engines and refrigerators and a testbed for fundamental principles and phenomena in thermodynamics of quantum systems and processes.
{"title":"Quantum thermodynamics at low temperatures","authors":"J. Pekola","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021302","url":null,"abstract":"Low temperature phenomena and methods are quantum thermodynamics per se. Modern engineered quantum systems, for instance those used for superconducting quantum information processing and mesoscopic electron transport, provide working media for realizing devices such as quantum heat engines and refrigerators and a testbed for fundamental principles and phenomena in thermodynamics of quantum systems and processes.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"2003 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86235943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As we are transitioning to an energy system based on renewable sources, the atmosphere is becoming one of our primary energy sources. Understanding atmospheric flows through wind farms has become an issue of large economic and societal concern.
{"title":"Atmospheric flows in large wind farms","authors":"R. Verzijlbergh","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021502","url":null,"abstract":"As we are transitioning to an energy system based on renewable sources, the atmosphere is becoming one of our primary energy sources. Understanding atmospheric flows through wind farms has become an issue of large economic and societal concern.","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82370398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is there new physics around the corner?","authors":"H. Beck","doi":"10.1051/epn/2021307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2021307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52467,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics News","volume":"161 22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90733124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}