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New paper about deep-sea turbulence

17 October 2025 – We present a new paper with the title ‘Whipped and mixed warm clouds in the deep sea‘.

With a unique array of high-resolution temperature sensors we studied the turbulence in the deep sea, for the first time in 3D.

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Welcome, ORCA33!

15 October 2025 – A very successful sea operation took place last week, leading to a significant extension of the ORCA submarine telescope. Read more


Search for sterile neutrinos with ORCA6

13 October 2025 – We present a new paper with the title ‘‘Search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA“.

Sterile neutrinos are hypothetical neutrinos proposed by theoretical physicists to explain unexpected experimental results obtained over the course of the past 25 years. Read more





Luc Cerisy wins the 2024 GNN dissertation prize!

15 September 2025 – We warmly congratulate Luc Cerisy (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS Marseille), who has been awarded the 2024 GNN Dissertation Prize for his doctoral thesis: “First tau neutrino appearance, non-unitary mixing and absolute orientation measurements in KM3NeT”.
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Second node of ORCA installed

13 August 2025 – Last week we installed a second submarine node for the ORCA neutrino telescope. It is an important step in preparation of the next deployments of detection units for ORCA.

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