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The germanium detectors of the LEGEND experiment (Photo: Michael Willers)

Antimatter mystery in the universe: Will the neutrino lead us on the right track?

Café & Kosmos on 8 April 2025

In the Universe, there should be as much matter as antimatter. As soon as particles and antiparticles collide, they annihilate each other and what remains is energy. However, since we obviously live in a Universe with matter - there are stars,…

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Distribution of galaxies (colored areas) and galaxy clusters (black dots) in a spherical shell surrounding us at a distance of 416 to 826 million light years. The five superstructures are marked: 1 Quipu, 2 Shapley, 3 Serpens-Corona Borealis and Hercules (overlapping in the sky), 4 Sculptor-Pegasus. The area outlined in white is shadowed by the disk of the Milky Way

New discovery in the sky: Largest superstructure in the nearby Universe unveiled

A team of scientists has found the largest superstructure ever reliably characterised in the Universe. The discovery was made while mapping the nearby Universe using galaxy clusters detected by the ROSAT X-ray satellite's survey of the sky. With a…

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Image of the universe from the “eRosita” space telescope (Photo: MPE/IKI)

eROSITA: Seven X-ray eyes explore the universe

Café & Kosmos on 11 February 2025

The eROSITA satellite observes the entire sky in the X-ray range. Developed and built at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 13, 2019, and has carried out a…

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Picture: Alexander Fiorioni

Warm air bubbles and the formation of the first cells

Café & Kosmos on 28 January 2025

Cells are the smallest units that we can undoubtedly recognise as alive. The membrane, a complex mixture of lipids and proteins, plays a central role in this because it separates the inside of the cell from the outside world. To form membranes, all…

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Prof. Dr. Gavin Salam (Photo: John Cairns/All Souls College)

MPP welcomes Gavin Salam as External Scientific Member

The Senate of the Max Planck Society has appointed the renowned theoretical particle physicist Gavin Salam, professor at the University of Oxford, as an External Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). Scientists in MPP’s…

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Managing Director Giulia Zanderighi (center) presenting the certificate to Amanda Baßler and Rainhard Kastner (Photo: B. Wankerl/MPP)

Award for MPP mechanics apprenticeship program

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has once again been honored for the high quality of its training. The mechanics apprenticeship program received a prize of 7,500 euros for ‘outstanding achievements’ in vocational training.  

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The Icecube experiment in the Antarctic (Image: Felipe Pedreros, IceCube/NSF)

Tracking down the mysteries of space with artificial intelligence

Café & Kosmos on 22 Oktober 2024

Neutrinos are like mysterious travelers carrying valuable information about the universe. They deposit their cosmic messages during their rare collisions with the ice of the IceCube neutrino detector. However, sophisticated methods are needed to…

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On the right: The calorimeter of the NA62 experiment, with which the particle energy is measured. On the left is the green Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector, which is used to identify the positively charged pions (Photo: CERN)

Discovery of a rare decay – a possible hint for new physics?

The NA62 experiment at CERN has detected a very rare decay for the first time. The particle process was predicted theoretically, is now statistically confirmed and thus experimentally proven. The scientists involved presented their results today at…

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Prof. Dr. Masahiro Teshima (Photo: A. Griesch/MPP)

Masahiro Teshima is the new speaker of the CTAO consortium

MPP Director Masahiro Teshima has been elected as the new spokesperson of the international CTAO consortium, which brings together 1,500 scientists from 28 research institutions. The consortium is the organizational unit of the CTA (Cherenkov…

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Installation of an sMDT chamber in the ATLAS detector in December 2020. The chamber is lowered through the access shaft into the ATLAS cavern at a depth of 100 meters (Photo: ATLAS/CERN)

New muon detectors for the ATLAS experiment

MPP completes first detector project for the High Luminosity LHC

The modernization of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will begin at the end of 2025. The aim is to increase the rate of particle collisions, collect ten times more data and thus gain new insights. The "high luminosity" stage of the LHC…

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