The range of aerosol particle number concentrations found commonly in the atmosphere spans several orders of magnitude, from less than 100 particles per cubic centimeter in clean background [...]
What does contemporary art have to do with science? The forest surrounding Hyytiälä SMEAR II measurement station has gained one more ‘measurement device’, as artist AgnesMeyer-Brandis [...]
The iLEAPS (integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Processed Study) science conference took place in Nanjing, China this May. The conference had several themes related to the current grand [...]
According to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the biggest environmental cause of death [1]. Solving environmental problems is always complex including [...]
Everyone knows that the most important feature of a (scientific) measurement instrument is that it gives accurate measurement results reliably. It is a general prejudice that scientists do not [...]
Airmodus was organizing last week a PSM user meeting for all the people using the Particle Size Magnifier, and others interested in measuring the tiniest particles. Close to 30 people [...]
I was last week listening to a speech by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the Globe at CERN. She was telling about the situation of women in the STEM (=science, technology, engineering & maths) [...]
A new CLOUD campaign is currently going on at CERN. Atmospheric scientists have taken over almost the whole East hall, and the CERN physicists get to again wonder about the strange people talking [...]
Yesterday Airmodus went flying in a wind tunnel at Sirius Sport. When the instructor let go and I was for the first time really floating on my own, I couldn’t help feeling like a tiny [...]
It’s the EAC time of year. The European Aerosol Conference is held in beautiful Prague this time. And we are again here at our Airmodus stand, with a bowl of sweets. Many scientists are a bit [...]
