Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

The Board of Directors of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation has approved Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as the tenth member of the organisation to participate in the detailed design of the SKA telescope. more

A precision experiment has provided details of the X-ray emissions from highly ionised iron, advancing our understanding of black holes and supernovae more

Extremely brief and intense laser pulses can switch fused silica (quartz) from an insulator to a conductor and back again within quadrillionths of a second. more

Fundamental properties of molecules have not changed during the past seven billion years more

A metal-organic framework separates hydrogen isotopes more efficiently than previous methods more

A new method of cooling polar molecules reveals the potential to investigate gases near absolute zero more

An unusually massive object at the heart of a tiny galaxy is challenging the theory more

Using IRAM's 30m-telescope, astronomers find indications for vast petroleum reservoirs in the Horsehead Nebula more

Rydberg excitations form ordered structures in a quantum gas due to long-range interactions more

An X-ray laser removes more than two complete shells from the electron cloud surrounding noble gas atoms more