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On Saturday, 18 April 2026, the laureates of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize, often called the “Oscars of Science”, were announced. The main programme awarded six top prizes, each worth 3 million dollars, in biological sciences, fundamental physics, and mathematics. In fundamental physics, the prize was awarded to the Muon g-2 collaboration for measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Among the laureates were our colleagues from the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems.
03.03.2026
In late February 2026, the journal Microbiology Spectrum published an article "Metagenomic analysis of the biofilm community at the oxic-anoxic interface of a deep-underground saline spring at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory". The team of authors includes our colleagues from the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell (Kirill Tarasov, Mikhail Zarubin, Alena Yakhnenko, and Elena Kravchenko) and from the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR RAS (Albert Gangapshev).
19.11.2025
The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences today held a press conference in Jiangmen City to announce the successful completion of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) and the release of its first physics results. After more than a decade of design, construction, and international collaboration, JUNO has become the world’s first next-generation, large-scale, high-precision neutrino detector to begin operation.
28.08.2025
On 26 August 2025, the international collaboration of the JUNO experiment officially announced the completion of filling the central detector with 20 thousand tonnes of liquid scintillator at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory on the south of China. The collaboration also started the detection of physical events. The aim of the experiment is determination of the hierarchy of neutrino masses and precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters.
17.03.2023
Annually, several billions of particle interactions are detected in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN. These events are processed, analyzed, and even larger simulated data samples are generated for them. To track the location of each event record and also to be able to search for and retrieve specific events during in-depth investigations, the ATLAS EventIndex catalogue has been compiled. The EventIndex project results have been recently published in a high-ranking scientific journal Computing and Software for Big Science.  
23.02.2023
The article of the Baikal-GVD collaboration has been published in the authoritative science journal Physical Review D. The first results of the search for astrophysical neutrinos based on the data accumulated by Baikal-GVD, the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope, were announced. The astrophysical neutrino flux earlier detected by the Antarctic Neutrino Telescope IceCube was confirmed. The Baikal Neutrino Telescope is one of the Russian projects at the mega science level. The Baikal-GVD Telescope was ceremonially launched in March 2021 with the participation of the Minister of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov.
13.12.2022
A new species of extremophilic bacteria has been isolated by JINR scientists, along with their colleagues from INR of RAS, from subsurface water in an unused tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR of RAS. The species is able to withstand high concentrations of heavy metals and to grow using C1 compounds as a carbon source. In the long term, this bacterial species can be used to purify soils and waste water from heavy metals and also to recover biomass using an inexpensive carbon source methanol.
30.11.2022
In the fall, DLNP JINR scientists returned to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy) to continue the installation of enriched Ge-76 detectors in the LEGEND experiment. The preparatory work necessary for a full-scale launch of the experiment was carried out. This was followed by reassembly of the liquid argon instrumentation and all currently available detectors made from Ge-76. All operations were performed with the direct participation of our specialists.
06.09.2022
Scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna), along with specialists from the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LI SB RAS, Irkutsk) and from the University of Bucharest (Romania), have examined elemental composition of Baikal sponges collected in areas with different anthropogenic load. It turned out that sponges can be successfully used as bioindicators of toxic element pollution in Lake Baikal. The results were published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin.
01.06.2022
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has produced the most precise measurement yet of θ₁₃, a key parameter for understanding how neutrinos change their “flavor”.
23.05.2022
“It has long been known that there are ultrahigh-energy neutrinos coming to us from space. However, it is the first time we have succeeded in linking them to galactic nuclei, blazars”, Valery Rubakov, the chief researcher of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR of RAS), academician of RAS, talked about the main results of the project “Neutrino and particle astrophysics”.
04.04.2022
From this issue you will learn how the ANTARES facility was put out of service, in which way the 2022 winterover team gathered at the South Pole, which tasks were performed on the deep-underwater platform of KM3NeT/ORCA during sea operations, and also, you will find the summary of papers on neutrino astronomy here. The current GNN Monthly issue
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