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No evidence of the double nature of neutrinos
After two years of searching for a special radioactive decay that would provide an indication of new physics beyond the standard model, an ...
Using antineutrinos to monitor nuclear reactors
When monitoring nuclear reactors, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has to rely on input given by the operators. In the future, ...
First evidence of high-energy neutrinos
For the first time scientists have uncovered concrete evidence for highly energetic neutrinos stemming from outside our solar system. The IceCube ...
The Dark Energy Survey begins five-year mission
From now on, the world's most powerful digital camera will turn its lenses skyward: For the next five years, the 570-megapixel camera of the Dark ...
The new C2PAP Compute Cluster starts operation at LRZ
The new computational cluster for the Computational Center for Particle and Astrophysics (C2PAP) of the Excellence Cluster Universe just started ...
Researchers find hints of supernova iron in bacteria microfossils
In fossil remnants of iron-loving bacteria, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe at the Technische ...
Nearly 5 million euros for high-precision experiments with ultra-cold neutrons
Again, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) supports the development of high-precision experiments with ultra-cold neutrons. For the measurement ...