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The Max Planck Institute for Physics commemoratds its 100th anniversary. On October 1, 1917, the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics started operations with Albert Einstein as director. The MPI for Physics celebrated its jubilee with a…

Scientists report an important milestone in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0vββ). As published in Nature, the GERDA experiment succeeded in reducing the radiation background to an extent that there are practically no disturbing…

Success reported from the AWAKE project: Researchers have succeeded for the first time in generating a wave-shaped plasma field with the aid of a proton beam – an approach which paves the way for a completely new type of particle accelerator. In the…

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is opening up a new research field. A workshop from November 21 - 22, 2016 has marked the start of activities for an innovative axion experiment. Axions are still only purely hypothetical particles. Their…

Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was followed by a burst of…