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Zellen sind die kleinsten Einheiten, die wir ohne Zweifel als lebendig erkennen können. Die Membran, ein komplexes Gemisch aus Lipiden und Proteinen, spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle, denn sie trennt das Zellinnere von der Außenwelt ab. Um Membranen…

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…

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…