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Physicist Erwin Frey researches the question, what is minimum for life.

New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar course to that of stars.

Physicists at LMU Munich show that the shape of components is a major determinant of how quickly and efficiently complex structures self-assemble.

LMU biophysicists have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life.

Researchers led by Ralf Jungmann have developed a super-resolution imaging method (SUM-PAINT) to map protein distributions in neurons and discovered a new type of synapse.

A new study shows how the chemical properties of RNA molecules could have facilitated the emergence of complex life.

LMU student Ralf Konietzka on his way to Harvard

Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers at LMU have discovered.

A huge gaseous structure situated in our local neighborhood of the Milky Way, the Radcliffe wave does in fact curve wavelike around the galactic plain while drifting slowly away from the center of the galaxy.

Survey of the X-ray sky by the eRosita telescope confirms predictions of the cosmological standard model with high precision and provides clues to the mass of the mysterious neutrinos.

A team led by physicist Immanuel Bloch has produced tetratomic supermolecules for the first time.

The data from the first eROSITA sky survey are now available.

Four researchers have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) funding, among them two physicists.

GALaQSci uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to playfully render the quantum world accessible.

LMU physicist Dmitri Efetov obtains premier research award in Germany for his work on graphene.

Hydrogen is a building block for the energy transition. To obtain it with the help of solar energy, LMU researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures. The material holds a world record for green hydrogen production with sunlight.

Dr. Jad C. Halimeh was awarded 1.5 million euros in research funding through the German Research Council (DFG) Emmy Noether program.

The German Research Foundation is funding a new Collaborative Research Centre on the origins of molecular evolution.

Through Consolidator Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) helps excellent scientists expand and consolidate their innovative research.

The latest analysis of publications places seventeen LMU scientists and academics, including three phycicists, among the most successful in their chosen field.

Dark Energy: Euclid space telescope delivers first scientific images - Researchers from German research institutes are excited

The LMU astrophysicist has won the award for his modeling of dust traps in protoplanetary disks, solving a long-standing puzzle in planet formation.

"Strong El Niño events can cost tens of thousands of human lives, and the water scarcity in the affected regions affects millions of people."

With the data the scientists hope to gain insight into the influence of dark matter and dark energy on the structure of the cosmos.

Three young scientists, including a researcher from LMU, were honored with this year's Nano Innovation Award from the Center for NanoScience.

German research institutes participating at the forefront of dark matter and dark energy research.

The NEHO project is working on ultrafast neural networks, which could be used to develop more efficient methods of information processing in the future.

LMU-Researchers have developed a metasurface that enables strong coupling effects between light and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs).

Novel Method for studying U(1) Lattice Gauge Theories with ultracold fermions.

With the 3kk imager at the 2m Fraunhofer telescope at Wendelstein Observatory, Germany, we have observed the highest probability candidate host galaxies.

Ultrafast laser physicists from the attoworld team at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have gained new insights into the dynamics of electrons in solids immediately after photoinjection.

The research team led by LMU physicist Ralf Jungmann is using a new technique to enhance fluorescence microscopy to the Ångstrom scale.

Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the universe in the future. LMU researchers have made a crucial advance in this area as part of an international collaboration.

New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.

Space plasma physicist Elena Kronberg has been awarded a DFG research grant through the Heisenberg program.

How do we detect life on exoplanets via astronomy? This is the question being asked by theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng.

Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells.

An initial study of dark energy with eROSITA X-Ray telescope indicates that it is uniformly distributed in space and time.

Dieter Braun and Christof Osman, together with international partners, have each received funding worth around a million euros from the Human Frontier Science Program.

Early-career scientist at LMU obtains prestigious Starting Grant from European Research Council for work on metasurfaces.

The EU flagship project PASQuanS2 with 25 partners coordinated by Immanuel Bloch, is funded by the European Union.

Stacked layers of ultrathin semiconductor materials feature phenomena that can be exploited for novel applications.

LMU physicists investigate the dynamics of active protein droplets in cells.

Free-floating planets do not orbit a sun. Their moons may still have liquid water, and thus the basis for the emergence of life. Munich-based researchers have now determined the necessary properties.

We analyse the Kormendy relations of the three Hubble Frontier Fields clusters, Abell S1063 at z = 0.348, MACS J0416.1-2403 at z = 0.396, and MACS J1149.5+2223 at z = 0.542, as a function of wavelength.

MORPHOFIT consists of a series of modules for estimating galaxy structural parameters.

Professor Jochen Kuhn investigates learning with and about artificial intelligence (AI) in schools and universities. In addition, he researches established digital media and technologies of the future.

New collaboration on digitalization in basic scientific research

Wilhelm C. Röntgen died in Munich 100 years ago, on 10 February 1923. We talk to historian of science Kärin Nickelsen about the discoverer of X-rays.

The existence of so-called super molecules has long been predicted theoretically. Now, a Munich team of researchers managed for the first time to create the conditions for proving these exotic entities.

LMU physicist Emiliano Cortés about a novel strategy for the production of chemicals in a cleaner and zero-carbon emission manner

LMU physicists have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept Grant to Prof. Alexander Högele

A Munich team of researchers has for the first time monitored in an experiment how positive charge carriers in a solid-state model combined to form pairs. This process could play an important role in understanding high-temperature superconductivity.

This paper presents a cosmological analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey based on the density split statistics.

LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene

The Physics World magazine has chosen the recent research of Dr. Marcus Ossiander and Dr. Martin Schultze as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2022.

This year, the ORIGINS Cluster PhD awards go to Riccardo Arcodia, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Alan Ianeselli, LMU Munich.

Physicists at the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications at LMU Munich have combined two plasma-based methods of particle acceleration for electron beams.

LMU researchers have developed a new model to describe how biological or technical systems form complex structures without external guidance.

The latest analysis of publications places fifteen LMU scientists and academics among the most successful in their chosen field.

LMU physicist Paola Coan presents new imaging technique that allows brain cells of mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease to be visualized in previously unattained quality.

LMU physicist Georgi Dvali has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of quantum physics and general relativity.

Scientists at the LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used ultrashort laser pulses to make the atoms of molecules vibrate and have gained a precise understanding of the dynamics of energy transfer that take place in the process.

Equipped with novel instruments, research flights over Canada are furnishing data about the emission of greenhouse gases. LMU physicists are playing a major role in the surveys.

LMU physicist Immanuel Bloch has been named Clarivate Citation Laureate for his pioneering research in the field of quantum simulation.

LMU physicists generate secret keys for secure communication.

The material graphene and a magic angle: physics with a new twist

In this review, we focus on the greatest common challenges and prospects for improvement in applications of photometric redshifts to the next generation of surveys.

Laser physicists have used an optical resonator to amplify the characteristic vibrations of molecules excited by laser pulses in such a way that their identification becomes possible even at very low concentrations.

A new theory enables the simulation of complex pattern formation in biological systems across different spatial and temporal scales.

An international team led by LMU physicist Harald Weinfurter has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Encryption is more secure against hacking attempts.

A team led by quantum physicist Immanuel Bloch has developed a new method to cool gases of polar molecules to near absolute zero. This paves the way for studying quantum effects of exotic forms of matter.

Science Communication Award to former CeNS Student Representative

With their newly developed "nanoTIPTOE" technique, physicists from LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics managed for the first time to record a helical light field on shortest time and length scales.

Physicist Dmitri Efetov Conducts Research into Graphene, a Carbon Material in Two Dimensions.

LMU and the Munich start-up Marvel Fusion will be collaborating in the field of laser research.

Researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection – a record and an important step toward the quantum internet.

A team of biophysicists led by prof. Jan Lipfert has measured how the twist of DNA depends on the concentration and type of ions in its environment.

An international team of laser physicists of the attoworld team at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has achieved unprecedented control over light pulses in the mid-infrared wavelength range.

Physicists at LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used for the first time laser light to control the location of light-induced reactions on the surface of nanoparticles.

At an AI symposium, eight newly appointed AI professors at LMU presented their research.

LMU geophysicist Max Moorkamp has developed a method that allows us to investigate the composition of the Earth with better results.

How stable are the bonds formed by coronaviruses with human cells? Researchers from LMU have designed a new assay to find out – and to investigate drugs made to prevent the virus from binding.

Droplets of dew water on the primordial Earth could have been the first compartments to host the replication of short DNA molecules and their evolution.

HALO--(AC)3 field campaign, in which LMU researchers are involved, investigates a worrying phenomenon.

LMU physicist Friedhelm Serwane together with two international collaborators has been awarded an HFSP grant of one million Euros.

A team of scientists led by Professor Jan Lipfert have developed a high-throughput pipeline to image nucleosomes using atomic force microscope imaging to reveal the conformational ensemble of nucleosome structures.

We study the connection of matter density and its tracers from the probability density function (PDF) perspective.

Physicists of the attoworld-team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität have uncovered what happens during the sampling of a light field. This helped them increase the sensitivity of the measurement by up to one order of magnitude.

A team led by LMU astrophysicist Basmah Riaz has detected a special methane compound outside the solar system for the first time.

Professor Ferenc Krausz has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics. The Hungarian-Austrian physicist receives the prize for his pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics.

Dr. Florian Schüder receives the award for his outstanding dissertation entitled "Advancing and applying Next-Generation DNA-based super-resolution microscopy".

Pioneering network in quantum science has already commenced work and has now been formally founded as an association.

The attoworld group reports in a video on the research results to date of the BIRD project.

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco, Samuroff et al., present the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic-shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies.

LMU researchers have developed a new strategy for manufacturing nanoscale structures in a time- and resource-efficient manner.

New appointment at LMU Munich: Professor Dmitri Efetov holds the Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Physics

Four talented early-career researchers have obtained prestigious starting grants together with LMU from the European Research Council.

We describe and test the fiducial covariance matrix model for the combined two-point function analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES-Y3) data set.

A team of scientists from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and attocube systems AG have engineered a Fabry-Pérot cavity at cryogenic temperatures under closed-cycle cooling conditions. The results have been published in PRX Quantum.

In this work, we forward-model the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) narrow-band data.

Munich and Dresden based researchers create compelling scenario for the evolution of membraneless microdroplets as the origin of life.

Astrophysicist Daniel Gruen is using artificial intelligence to explore the cosmos. He accepted a professorship at LMU’s Faculty of Physics in summer 2021.

On the moment when something entirely new emerged from inanimate matter: The CRC “Emergence of Life” and the Deutsches Museum developed the game AEON.

Physicists at LMU have developed a method for visualizing chemical patterns on unstained living cells in the nanometer range.

LMU scientists at the Nano-Institute Munich developed a technique to avoid CO2 in energy conversion processes with carbon-containing fuels

LMU physicists Samarth Vadia and Alexander Högele report in PRX Quantum.

LMU Nobel Prize winner Theodor Hänsch turns 80. The physicist talks about his most important discoveries, but also about exploding chemicals, pink laser guns and his encounters with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

The LMU physicist has been awarded both the Alfried Krupp Prize and the Klung-Wilhelmy Science Prize.

The development of alveoli in organoids derived from mammary-gland tissue follows the same physical principles as the formation of discrete droplets in a water jet.

With the help of high-resolution microscopy, Munich based scientists successfully observed the transformation of a metal of magnetic polarons into a normal Fermi liquid.

Space and time encoded in 320 million Megabytes: LMU astrophysicist Klaus Dolag uses simulations to study how the cosmos evolved.

Prof. Emiliano Cortes, W2 tenure-track Professor at the Chair of Hybrid Plasmonics at the Faculty of Physics, has been selected for a special issue of "2021 Emerging Scientist".

LMU physicists have developed a novel method for contactless cooling of objects.

Study reveals formation and self-organisation of materials over multiple length scales

On 28 May 2021, teams of physicists and engineers installed the final "wedge" of the first ATLAS New Small Wheel detector. This was an important milestone for the Collaboration, in preparation for the wheel’s installation in the ATLAS cavern later this s

A German-British research team has developed an on-chip hollow-core light cage that could provide a platform for quantum-storage and quantum-nonlinear applications.

Dr. Isabella Graf receives the "Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis" 2020 from the Faculty of Physics for her outstanding dissertation entitled "Principles of self-organization and self-assembly in biologically inspired non-equilibrium systems - a conceptual

What role do mechanical forces play in the development of neural networks, such as the human retina? – This question will be tackled by Dr. Friedhelm Serwane and his new ERC funded research group at LMU, starting in September 2020.