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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…

Christmas is just around the corner and the festive mood has also arrived at MPP. Our Christmas tree is festively decorated and the offices are looking beautiful - only the snow is still a little way off.

But even without snow, we have found a…

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…

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…

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.  

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…

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…

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…

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…

Just after the ceremonial opening of the new building, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has announced an important change in its leadership: theoretical physicist Giulia Zanderighi has been elected as the new Managing Director: a first, as…