News tagged with max
Schrodinger's Cat Experiment Proposed
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the classical problems in quantum mechanics concerns a man and his feline companion. The man has placed his cat in an opaque tank and is slowing pumping it full of poison. Now until ...
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Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.
Dec 29, 2010 |
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Breaking the Planck's law, at the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together. ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Microwave guiding of electrons
For the first time scientists at Max Planck Institute in Germany have achieved guiding of electrons by purely electric fields.
May 10, 2011 |
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Scientists discover bilayer structure in efficient solar material
Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material's superior performance at converting sunlight to electricity and ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Nemesis is a myth
Danger looms from out of space: asteroids and comets are a threat to our planet. The history of Earth has always been punctuated by cosmic catastrophes. Several studies have claimed to have found periodic ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Millisecond pulsar in spin mode
Astronomers have tracked down the first gamma-ray pulsar in a globular cluster of stars. It is around 27,000 light years away and thus also holds the distance record in this class of objects. Moreover, its ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Glass sponge as a living climate archive
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Researchers develop new method for the production of microlenses
Inspired from Mother Nature: The body of the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii is studded with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate. Microlenses like these are of great interest technologically, yet th ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Physicist awarded prestigious John Bardeen Prize
James A. Sauls, professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2012 John Bardeen Prize for his contributions to the theory of unconventional ...
May 11, 2012 |
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Researchers can predict Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Climate scientists around Dr. Daniela Matei and Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr from Hamburg University have now shown for the first time that the strength ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Venture to the last protoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck scientists have front row seats in the exploration of the asteroid with two onboard cameras. The aim is to travel back in time to the origins of the solar system.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2011 |
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The fate of the big rain
Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, is investigating the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Chromosome centromeres are inherited epigenetically
Centromeres are specialised regions of the genome, which can be identified under the microscope as the primary constriction in X-shaped chromosomes. The cell skeleton, which distributes the chromosomes to ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Plant seeds protect their genetic material against dehydration
Plant seeds represent a special biological system: They remain in a dormant state with a significantly reduced metabolism and are thus able to withstand harsh environmental conditions for extended periods. ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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