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21 November 2013 The idea to closer link the neutrino telescope projects underwater and in ice has been discussed in the international community of high-energy neutrino astrophysicists for several years. Finally, at October 15 of this year, representatives of the collaborations ANTARES, BAIKAL, IceCube and KM3NeT signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a Global Neutrino […]

21 November 2013 The APPEC Horizon 2020 Workshop on November 4/5, 2013 has put the magnifying glass on the coming EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation This time the big questions were not about fundamental research in astroparticle physics, but what to expect from the new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020). Very soon,

15 November 2013 The New York Times – An Icy Observatory Detects Neutrinos From Far, Far Away

10 November 2013 BBC news – Gamma-ray burst brightest ever seen

10 November 2013 Space Daily – New dark matter detector sends first data from gold mine 1.5km underground

10 October 2013 CNN – Namibian telescopes unravel mysteries

26 September 2013 In one of the episodes of the “Sesame Street”, the protagonists Ernie and Bert debate on Ernie’s frozen ice cubes which miraculously had disappeared. The story makers could not have guessed that some forty years later, members of a 270M dollar endeavour called IceCube would debate on the miraculous appearance of two events, and that these events would

26 September 2013 The 5th Einstein Telescope (ET) symposium has been held on 22 and 22 October, 2013 in Hanover, hosted by the Albert Einstein Institute. The ET project aims at the realization of a 3rd generation Gravitational Wave (GW) observatory, a new European Research Infrastructure that will open the era of routine precision GW astronomy and

23 September 2013 The European Astroparticle Physics (APP) community has been greatly successful in getting funded in the context of FP7, the previous EU Framework Programme. This EU funding has greatly contributed in the quality of scientific results obtained in the last decades. It is therefore of the utmost importance for the future of the

15 September 2013 CERN Courier – Enlightening the dark