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At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

On 7 November 2025, the Austrian Academy of Sciences inaugurated the Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics.

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New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...