https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German physicist Peter Grünberg, a joint Nobel Prize winner whose work revolutionized digital data storage, has died aged 78, his research centre said Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180410/german-physics-nobel-laureate-peter-gruenberg-dies Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:35:02 +0200 german-physics-nobel-laureate-peter-gruenberg-dies A kilogram is a kilogram, right? Not in the way we measure it, say physicists in Lower Saxony – who are working on a new way to determine the mass . https://www.thelocal.de/20151109/german-scientists-help-redefine-the-kilogram Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:01:26 +0100 german-scientists-help-redefine-the-kilogram Plans to build a €1.6 billion particle accelerator in Germany cleared the first main hurdle on Tuesday when authorities gave the go-ahead for construction to begin. https://www.thelocal.de/20120613/43113 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:22:00 +0200 43113 Earth is wearing a belt of antimatter – a twin of ordinary matter that could one day be used to create fuel for interstellar space travel – according to a breakthrough study by German and Italian scientists. https://www.thelocal.de/20110817/36917 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:42:00 +0200 36917 German and Canadian scientists have announced plans to open an advanced research centre on semiconductors, metals, magnetic materials and other aspects of quantum physics. https://www.thelocal.de/20101005/30267 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:13:00 +0200 30267 The smouldering heat left over from the universe’s creation has been captured in unprecedented detail by a deep space observatory behind which Germany is playing a driving role. https://www.thelocal.de/20100707/28347 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:53:00 +0200 28347 With the €6.7 billion Large Hadron Collider experiment finally kicking into life this week outside Geneva, Switzerland, scientists began smashing together tiny particles at virtually the speed of light, to see what happens. https://www.thelocal.de/20100402/26287 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:46:00 +0200 26287 A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful scientific atom-smasher. https://www.thelocal.de/20100309/25759 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0100 25759 A 33-year-old physicist from the German state of Baden-Württemberg has been chosen as a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut along with five other candidates, the organisation said in Paris on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090520/19405 Wed, 20 May 2009 18:41:00 +0200 19405