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During the week of October 4-8, the “Community Planning Meeting” (CPM2020) for the Snowmass 2021 took place. The aim was...

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its...

On November 4, 2020, the International Cosmic Day (ICD) took place for the 9th time. It focuses on the measurement...

Interview with Stavros Katsanevas about the Citizen Science project REINFORCE The REINFORCE (Research Infrastructures FOR citizens in Europe) project aims...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the recent Neutrino 2020 virtual meeting the Borexino Collaboration has announced the first detection ever of neutrinos from the...

Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced on June 17th that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark...

  APPEC congratulates the CERN Council for its decision to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics setting up a...

In April 2020 the previous observer Poland became an official member of APPEC. In the General Assembly they are represented...

The quest for B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is one of the major challenges of observational cosmology....