Tieteilijöiden lelut

25/11/2025

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-2CnCrz38F4&si=zoMZQm6shCGu8j--

The epic story of the largest nuclear fusion reactor ever built. See how Procore is connecting everyone in construction on a global platform - https://bit.ly...

15/11/2025

Jupiter is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, capable of performing one quintillion calculations per second. This speed lets climate researchers see the full picture, big and small: They can zoom in tight on a strip of coastline while also simulating many large-scale factors interacting in HD. https://www.quantamagazine.org/photos-capture-the-extreme-beautiful-work-of-climate-science-20250915/

10/11/2025

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16/10/2025

ELT etenee myös. Ja se on iso. Ei ihan satametrinen kuten alunperin toivottiin, m***a on 39:nkin miehekäs mitta.

Eksoplaneettoja on löydetty jo yli 6 000. Etsijöiden kilpajuoksu on muuttunut tieteentekijöiden yhteistyöksi.

14/09/2025

The clock just struck 2:50am PDT on Sept 14, 2025.

EXACTLY 10-years ago, gravitational wave astronomy was born with a spacetime signal which whizzed through the Earth at the speed of light. This quick signal rung the LIGO Observatory's detector at LIGO - Livingston (known as "L1") first and 0.007 seconds later this same signal briefly rumbled through "H1" (the LIGO Hanford detector).

Then All Went Quiet.

But for the first time EVER, a gravitational wave detection was directly detected & recorded. It caught us by surprise (pleasantly) with our newly upgraded Advanced LIGO Detectors. It was a LOUD signal, and it was from a pair of big black holes from the other side of the universe (1.3 billion light years away).

And Just Like That, Everything Changed.

Gravitational Wave Astronomy Was Born.

Happy 10-Year Anniversary For This Historic Detection (which we named, GW150914).
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You can always read up on this image & learn more about this historic discovery here:
https://ligo.org/detections/gw150914
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30/07/2025

The Scientific Data and Computing Centre is a purpose-built digital engine room for ITER—one that combines cutting-edge computation with industrial-scale storage to support ITER’s scientific mission by enabling large-scale simulations, managing vast volumes of data, and ensuring the long-term preservation of research and engineering records.
The initial infrastructure includes around 5 petabytes (PB) of high-performance storage—equivalent to over a million full-length HD movies—with rapid expansion expected as the project progresses.
The ITER High-Performance Computing system comprises over 17,000 CPU cores, equivalent to the combined power of more than 2,000 laptops working in parallel. This massive computational capacity allows researchers to model plasma dynamics, simulate reactor conditions, and perform complex engineering analyses in timeframes that would be unthinkable on ordinary machines.
The ITER and is a state-of-the-art facility designed to host up to 1 megawatt (MW) of IT equipment, distributed across 48 racks. That’s roughly the same power demand as an entire residential neighborhood, or more than 300 average family homes running at full load. The Centre features redundant power and cooling systems, multiple independent distribution paths, and the ability to perform maintenance without shutting down critical services. It is expected to operate continuously with less than 1.6 hours of downtime per year.
Data is a strategic asset for ITER. During peak operations, the Data Centre is expected to manage 30–50 gigabytes per second of throughput, and daily archive volumes could reach between 90 and 2,200 terabytes, depending on the stage of the project. By around 2035, the cumulative data archive is projected to exceed one —a billion gigabytes—making it one of the largest scientific data stores in the world.
Through the infrastructure of the Scientific Data and Computing Centre, ITER’s scientific legacy will be not only created but protected, preserved, and shared with the world.

25/07/2025

Ensi vuonna eurooppalaiset tekevät sen ylimmän ekoteon. Copernicus-ohjelma on laukaisemassa CO2M-satelliitit, jotka tuottavat tarkkaa dataa kasvihuonekaasuista, eli tekevät mahdolliseksi seurata suoraan sitä kuka päästelee ja kuinka paljon. Kokonaisuuteen liittyvät myös Ilmatieteen laitos ja LUMI-supertietokone, koska lähtödatan kääntäminen nimenomaan antropogeenisiksi, paikallisiksi päästöiksi on vaativa laskennallinen käänteisongelma.

Luvassa voi olla poliittistakin kohua, sillä kun presidenttiehdokkaiden väittelyn kirvoittamana kyselin aikanaan aiheesta suoraan projektilaiselta, signaalit olivat sen suuntaisia että Suomen hiilitase saattaisi osoittautua nollaksi. Elämme jännittäviä aikoja.

Figure 1: Artist’s impression of Copernicus CO2 Monitoring (CO2M) mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMSjkWPYjM4 Media 1: Tracking human emiss...

13/07/2025

This is the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, the largest digital camera ever built, which sits in the center of the Rubin Observatory. Designed to detect faint, distant objects in the cosmos, it weighs as much as an SUV and can also detect Earth-threatening asteroids.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-ever-digital-camera-is-this-cosmologists-magnum-opus-20250711/

08/07/2025

Kappas, Super-Kamiokandeakin pystyy tarkkailemaan livenä. Tuo on valtava vesitankki joka on vuorattu herkillä valoilmaisimilla. Siihen osuvat neutriinot tuottavat kolmisenkymmentä Cherenkov-välähdystä päivässä. Kun säteily syntyy väliaineessa valoa nopeammin kulkevan neutriinon perään samankaltaisena kartiona kuin yliäänipamahdus ilmassa, noiden tuhansien ilmaisimien tuottamasta kuvasta voidaan päätellä neutriinon suunta, eli tavallaan tuo kokonaisuus on myös yhden sortin teleskooppi. Sillä on mm. jo nähty supernova. 8x isompi Hyper-Kamiokande on rakenteilla.

07/07/2025

Chilessä sijaitsevaa Atacaman autiomaata luonnehditaan maailman kuivimmaksi paikaksi.