3.6 Solar eruptions & sheath regions. SPOILER: they're huge! -w/ Eleanna, Giuliano & Matti Ala-Lahti

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Did you ever wonder how solar eruptions affect the space, as they travel away from the Sun? In this episode Eleanna Asvestari and Guliano Didio are interviewing Dr. Matti Ala-Lahti about plasma in space, solar eruptions, and the "sheath region" that is formed when mass ejected during a solar eruption travels in space. Dr. Matti Ala-Lahti is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki where he recently defended his doctoral thesis. He received a grant to start working in autumn 2021 as a postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan. Matti's research focuses on space plasma environments driven by solar eruptions, i.e. sheath regions driven by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). His love for space might one day take Matti to space LITERALLY as he applied for the astronaut program in Europe! Dr. Matti Ala-Lahti's email address: [e-mail] References bees fun-fact: Bees can count: Howard, Scarlett R., et al. "Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees." Science 360.6393 (2018): 1124-1126. Bees might have been cheating: MaBouDi HaDi, Barron Andrew B., Li Sun, Honkanen Maria, Loukola Olli J., Peng Fei, Li Wenfeng, Marshall James A. R., Cope Alex, Vasilaki Eleni and Solvi Cwyn 2021Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasksProc. R. Soc. B.28820202711 Your hosts this week are Eleanna Asvestari & Giuliano Didio. Editing by Cecilia Cannarozzo. Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski & Giuliano Didio. TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano. Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com Follow The Science Basement: Homepage: www.thesciencebasement.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScienceBasement Instagram: @sciencebasement Twitter: @ScienceBasement Email: [e-mail]