Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

Garching and Tübingen physicists have on an "atomic fountain" carried out Galilei’s leaning tower experiment with quantum objects more

Realization of quantum memory for light allows the extension of quantum communication far beyond 100 km more

Building block created for quantum-computing, secure communication and quantum Internet more

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the Sun's activity over the last 11 millennia and forecasts decreased activity within a few decades more

The puzzle of `magnetic stars' solved by astrophysicists of the Max Planck Society more

Local defects tune the vibrational modes of carbon nanotubes more

The H.E.S.S. Telescope system, a new scout to the high-energy universe, will be opened on September 28, 2004 in the vicinity of the Gamsberg/Namibia more

Max Planck Scientists strike new paths in nanoanalysis and data storage with infrared light more

Austrian-German research team demonstrates for the first time an attosecond "oscilloscope" rendering the hyper-fast field oscillations of visible light. more

Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research reveal: solar activity affects the climate but plays only a minor role in the current global warming more