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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…

In the presence of guests of honor Dr. Markus Söder, Minister President of Bavaria, Markus Blume, Minister of State for Science and the Arts, and Prof. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, the inauguration of the new institute…

70 years ago, CERN was founded near Geneva in Switzerland. This was also the birth of an unprecedented research project: the planning and construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator with which researchers from all over the…

Without the force of gravity, many things behave very differently than we are used to: A burning candle, for example, is not a yellow flame in zero gravity, but a bluish ball. Soap bubbles turn out to be surprisingly thick-skinned, and grains form…

Whether telescopes, collision experiments or detectors for the detection of dark matter, in experimental particle physics, nothing works without FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). Thanks to their reprogrammable capacity and their great…