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A day in the world of particle physics – a students' course on 5 April 2017
How can we investigate the smallest building blocks of the universe, the elementary particles? That question will be answered by the International ...
Peeking around cosmic corners
Using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers measured independently how fast the Universe is expanding. The ...
Excellent PhD theses 2016
The PhD Awards 2016 of the Excellence Cluster Universe go to the experimental work of Alexander Neumeier (TUM) and the theoretical thesis of Simone ...
New DFG Special Research Area: Neutrinos and Dark Matter
Neutrinos and dark matter are at the center of research of a new Special Research Area (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) of the German Research ...
Excellence Cluster on air: "Can Supernovae cause extinctions?"
Scientists from the Excellence Cluster at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) recently reported the first ever discovery of supernova ash – ...
The search for dark matter: Entering the next phase of CRESST
The CRESST experiment is continuing its search for dark matter. A few weeks ago the detector reached its operating temperature of around -273 degrees ...
The death of a planet nursery?
The dusty disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae exhibits circular features that may signal the formation of protoplanets. LMU astrophysicist Barbara ...
