Recently, a new step for international cooperation in the FAIR project has taken place: For the first time, a partner from the industry of a FAIR shareholder nation is on board as a partner and sponsor in the GET_INvolved programme. On the campus in Darmstadt, Dr. Ulrich Breuer, Administrative Managing Director of GSI/FAIR, Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of GSI/FAIR and representatives of the Polish company "S2Innovation" signed the first project associate program...

It is still a glimpse into the future: Astronauts could be put into artificial hibernation and in this state be better protected from cosmic radiation. At present, there are already promising approaches to follow up such considerations. An international research team led by the Biophysics Department of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum in Darmstadt now has found decisive indications of the possible benefits of artificial hibernation for radiation resistance.

Many of Europe's biggest facilities in physics-related disciplines have just cemented a long-term deal to commit to sharing and processing open data. This agreement was signed at the “ESCAPE to the Future” conference, where partners of the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructure (ESCAPE) project as well as members of the scientific community and the European Commission gathered at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science in Brussels…