07/30/2026 Tracing a cosmic imbalance: LEGEND 1000 aims to shed light on the role neutrinos may have played in leaving matter behind after the Big Bang – making stars, planets, and life possible. The German Science and Humanities Council has now recommended implementation of this research infrastructure, which is jointly led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) with strong participation from researchers of the Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS. The Council recognizes the project’s outstanding scientific significance for…
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06/23/2026 Two leading researchers from the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence have each been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), as the ERC announced today. This funding will enable them to pursue their ambitious projects. Eiichiro Komatsu, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), will investigate possible New Physics in the “NewPhysCMB” project using the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Sherry Suyu, who is also a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is investigating the Hubble constant,…
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