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New APPEC Chair and General Secretary

Interview with Andreas Haungs and Katharina Henjes-Kunst On December 9 at the General Assembly Meeting, a new Chair and a...

Meeting of the APPEC General Assembly

On 9 December, the APPEC General Assembly came together for an online Meeting. The meeting was opened by a welcome...

Next step in the deployment of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector

Another KM3NeT/ORCA detector deployment campaign in the Mediterranean was brought to a conclusion in October 2020. A second junction box...

Joint ECFA – NuPECC – APPEC Activities (JENAA)

The nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics communities, represented by the three committees/ consortia NuPECC, ECFA and APPEC want to join...

Pinning-Down the Sources of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported a measurement of the spectrum of cosmic-rays above 2.5 x 1018 eV made with...

Gravitational Wave detection GW190521 – an unexpected discovery

Interview about the Gravitational Wave GW190521, detected by Virgo and LIGO, with Giovanni Losurdo On 2 September the Virgo and...

REINFORCE webinar – How to help scientists in the Gravitational Wave noise hunt

On 16 October REINFORCE (Research Infrastructures FOR citizens in Europe) organizes a webinar for potential citizen scientists, Gravitational Wave Astronomy...

ET – the future of Gravitational Wave observation in Europe

Interview on the status of the Einstein Telescope with Michele Punturo and Frank Linde During the last year the Einstein...

Virgo and LIGO unveil new and unexpected black hole populations

Virgo and LIGO have announced the detection of an extraordinarily massive merging binary system: two black holes of 66 and...

Assembling the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector during Covid-19 Times

The nature of dark matter (DM), an invisible substance which constitutes 85% of matter in the observable universe, is one...

Gravitational Wave Probes of Fundamental Physics – a cross-cutting initiative

Interview on Gravitational Waves Expression of Interest with Tetyana Galatyuk and Paolo Pani In response to the JENAS call the...

CUPID-Mo: a new world leading limit for neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo

Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a crucial process in particle physics and cosmology. It can be conceived as an...

CTA Prototype LST-1 Detects Very High-Energy Emission from the Crab Pulsar

Between January and February 2020, the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1, observed the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at...

Virgo and LIGO spot a mystery object merging with a black hole

When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that...

New Chair and Vice-Chair for the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee

During the last meeting of the General Assembly a new Chair and Vice-Chair for the Scientific Advisory Committee have been...