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What holds the world together? Fundamental Physics meets Social Science

What holds the world together? Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist from the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, and Prof. Armin Nassehi, sociologist from LMU München, give answers to this question – and a glimpse into the future…

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A collision event in the ATLAS detector: Higgs boson coupling to top quark (Picture: ATLAS/CERN)

10 years of the Higgs boson

Exactly ten years ago, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced a resounding success: Little less than three years after the launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the last missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics had been…

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The binary star system RS Ophiuchi: Matter flows from the red giant onto the white dwarf. The newly added stellar envelopes explode in a bright nova about every 15 years. (Artwork: superbossa.com/MPP)

MAGIC telescopes observe nova explosion

Nova outbursts are apparently a source for cosmic rays

The MAGIC telescopes have observed the nova RS Ophiuchi shining brightly in gamma rays at extremely high energy. The Gamma rays emanate from protons that are accelerated to very high energies in the shock front following the explosion. This suggests…

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View into the interior of the main spectrometer of the KATRIN experiment for the determination of the neutrino mass (Photo: Joachim Wolf/KIT)

New data from the KATRIN experiment: Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electronvolts

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN), located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has broken an important "barrier" in neutrino physics which is relevant for both particle physics and cosmology. Based on data…

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Erection of the water tank in the COSINUS experiment (Photos: U. di Sabatino/LNGS)

Dark Matter Experiment COSINUS: Preparations are in full swing

The construction of the COSINUS experiment in the underground laboratory at Gran Sasso LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) is making great progress. The first large component has been erected in the last weeks. It is a water tank (7 meter in…

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