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Thursday 5 January 2023 Klaus Richter elected as President of the German Physical Society from 2024 to 2026 » Bad Honnef, 14th November 2022. Press release from the German Physical Society At its most recent meeting, the DPG's...
Thursday 5 January 2023 A step towards solar fuels out of thin air » EPFL Press release, 4th January 2023 EPFL chemical engineers have invented a solar-powered artificial leaf, bu...
Monday 19 December 2022 Nuclear fusion simulation to pioneer transition to exascale supercomputers » Press release from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, December 2022 The EU Commission is pro...
Tuesday 13 December 2022 ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter » CERN press release, 12th December 2022 The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a...
Tuesday 6 December 2022 First technical FAIR facility receives its centerpiece » Press release, 6th December 2022 "Coldbox" of the cooling system for the superconducting accelerator magnets delivered...
Thursday 1 December 2022 GSI/FAIR: Mapping out the parameters for inertial confinement fusion » Press release, November 28, 2022 Mapping out the parameters for inertial confinement fusion — GSI/FAIR sign a cooperat...
Thursday 1 December 2022 CERN and Airbus partnership on future clean aviation » High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide (also referred to as REBCO) po...
Monday 31 October 2022 ESO captures the ghost of a giant star » 31 October 2022, EOS press release. A spooky spider web, magical dragons or wispy trails of ghosts? What do you see in t...
Thursday 27 October 2022 FAIR project evaluated by international group of experts » Press release, 26th October 2022 Following the decision of the FAIR Council, the highest body of the FAIR GmbH’s shareh...
Thursday 27 October 2022 Sparks!: CERN’s serendipity forum brings together experts to discuss Future Technology for Health » Sparks! invites global experts to discuss the big topics of future technology. Taking research at CERN as a starting p...
Thursday 27 October 2022 This discovery made ITER possible » October 2022, Press Release from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP): 40 years of H-mode Forty years a...
Tuesday 11 October 2022 A new solution to one of the major problems of fusion research » 11th October 2022, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) Current experiments and simulations show how to avoid d...
Thursday 15 September 2022 Wendelstein 7-X on the verge of new peak performance » Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) – the stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Greifswald – has been...
Tuesday 9 August 2022 IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) New Application Period Opens! » The 3rd IAEA Maria Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) application period is now open and will close on Se...
Tuesday 5 July 2022 A Fields Medal for EPFL Professor Maryna Viasovska » Maryna Viazovska - Photo EPFL / Fred Merz (Lundi13) Geneva, 5th July 2022. Maryna Viazovska has received a Fields Medal...
Monday 4 July 2022 The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery » Geneva, 4 July 2022. Ten years ago, on July 4 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the L...
Friday 17 June 2022 CERN Council declares its intention to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus » Statement by the CERN Council: At its 208 th meeting yesterday, the CERN Council reiterated its denunciation of the...
Thursday 19 May 2022 ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics » A charm quark (c) in a parton shower loses energy by emitting radiation in the form of gluons (g). The shower displays a “...
Thursday 12 May 2022 Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy » 12 May 2022. Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ES...
Tuesday 10 May 2022 Astronomers discover micronovae, a new kind of stellar explosion » Artist’s impression of a micronova - Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada ESO, 20th April 2022. A team of astronomers...
Thursday 5 May 2022 Call for European Participants in EPO9 » The Sofia Branch of Union of Physicists of Bulgaria together with the Society of Physicists of the Republic of North Mac...
Monday 25 April 2022 Large Hadron Collider restarts » 25th April 2022. CERN press release The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted afte...
Tuesday 12 April 2022 Brazil to become an Associate Member State of CERN » CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes (Image:...
Monday 11 April 2022 (0 Comments - view/add) CERN: LHCb reveals secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions » A proton–proton collision event recorded by the LHCb detector, showing the track followed by an antiproton formed in the...
Monday 11 April 2022 Ministerial Conference on a Comprehensive Approach to Research, Innovation and Higher Education » Press release from the European Commission On 8 March 2022, a conference of the EU ministers for higher education, r...
Monday 4 April 2022 IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) Invitation » We are pleased to inform you about the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP), which was launched in 202...
Friday 25 March 2022 CERN Council takes further measures in response to the invasion of Ukraine » Geneva, 25th March 2022. In response to the military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the 23 Member States o...
Thursday 17 March 2022 ASACUSA sees surprising behaviour of hybrid matter–antimatter atoms in superfluid helium » CERN Geneva, 16th March 2022. A hybrid matter– antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton...
Thursday 10 March 2022 CERN Council responds to Russian invasion of Ukraine » 8th March 2022. The 23 Member States of CERN condemn, in the strongest terms, the military invasion of Ukraine by the...
Thursday 17 February 2022 EPFL and DeepMind use AI to control plasmas for nuclear fusion » EPFL, Lausanne, 16th February 2022 Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a ne...
Thursday 17 February 2022 Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2021 announced » GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt , 16th February 2022 The “Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2...
Thursday 13 January 2022 BASE breaks new ground in matter–antimatter comparisons » View of the BASE experiment (Image: CERN) 5th January 2022: CERN, Geneva. In a paper published today in t...
Thursday 2 December 2021 CERN releases its second Environment Report setting out concrete actions to reduce its environmental » Having the HL-LHC civil engineering overseen by an environmental engineer was one of the contractual conditions for th...
Monday 18 October 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) CERN Quantum Technology Initiative unveils strategic roadmap shaping CERN’s role in next quantum rev » The picture is a modified variant of the original Veronika McQuade's computer centre shot (Image: CERN) Geneva, 14 Oc...
Thursday 30 September 2021 EPFL engineers introduce a new approach for recycling plastics » ©EPFL EPFL, 22 September 2021. Two EPFL engineers have come up with a revolutionary new method for tackling plastic po...
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