X-ray telescope to detect dark energy in space Mar 17, 2010
It will be on board in 2012, when a Soyus-2 rocket carries an X-ray telescope into space to decode the nature of the universe's dark energy: an X-ray detector developed by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ... Several research institutes and companies are participating in eRosita under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ... eRosita stands for Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array Website of the Max Planck Institute for... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Lost into space Mar 13, 2010
" Leicester's role in the study was to analyse the data using ideas that academic researchers had from discussions within the Radio and Space Plasma Physics Research Group. ### Niklas Edberg, a doctoral student at the University of Leicester, who now works at the Swedish Institute for Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden, conducted the research with Leicester colleagues Anthony Williams, Mark Lester, Steve Milan, and Stan Cowley of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. H. Nilsson, S. Barabash... (EurekAlert!)
Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses? Mar 12, 2010
A German-Spanish research group, split between the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), is using the principles of an iconic quantum mechanics thought experiment -- Schr. dinger's superpositioned cat -- to test for quantum properties in objects composed of as many as one billion atoms, possibly including the flu virus. (Science Daily)
Asteroid Astronomers Get Unprecedented Amount of Telescope Time Feb 26, 2010
The project will be conducted in collaboration with astronomers from Europe and the US. Team members include: Dr Simon Green, Dr Stephen Wolters and Ben Rozitis (Open University); Professor Alan Fitzsimmons and Samuel Duddy (Queen's University of Belfast); Dr Colin Snodgrass (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany); Ryan Laird (University of Kent); and Dr Paul Weissman and Dr Michael Hicks (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, USA). Background: the YORP Effect. (Science Daily)
Photons Led Astray: Experiment Investigates Random Motion of Quantum Particles Feb 18, 2010
An international team headed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has now proven this experimentally ... A particle with quantum properties would experience something different, as the researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and the Universities of Prague and Edinburgh have now proven. (Science Daily)
Nature Regions Germany Feb 13, 2010
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Germany. (Nature News Service)
High, Not Flat: Nanowires for a New Chip Architecture Feb 11, 2010
The Max Planck researchers in Halle produce monocrystalline silicon nanowires which are particularly suitable as components for microchips ... Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal. (Science Daily)
Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, Big Bang theory skeptic; 84 Feb 8, 2010
His doubts were buttressed by observations by Halton C. Arp, now of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, suggesting that quasars were concentrated around nearby active galaxies and might have been shot out of them. Dr. Burbidge and his friends eventually lost the debate. (Boston Globe)
AGU Journal highlights Jan. 29, 2010 Jan 30, 2010
Authors: Snke Zaehle: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Pierre Friedlingstein: QUEST, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and LSCE, UMR, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. (EurekAlert!)
Russia Struggles to Maintain Research Output, According to Thomson Reuters Study Jan 26, 2010
-- The Max Planck Society is the most frequent organization to collaborate with Russia. The study is part of the Global Research Report series from Thomson Reuters that illustrates the changing landscape and dynamics of scientific research around the world and draws on data found in Web of Science , available on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge(SM) platform -- the world's largest citation environment of the highest quality scholarly literature. (Canada Newswire)
Cosmology: Weak Gravitational Lensing Improves Measurements of Distant Galaxies Jan 22, 2010
The X-ray analysis itself was performed by Alexis Finoguenov of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University of Maryland, one of the paper's lead authors. Knowing the centers of mass from analysis of x-ray emission, the researchers could now use weak lensing to estimate the total mass of the distant groups and clusters with greater accuracy than ever before. (Science Daily)
Biophysicists Manipulate 'Zipper,' Reveal Protein Folding Dynamics Jan 21, 2010
17, 2005) Max Planck scientists find a novel way to construct transition states for protein folding. (Mar. (Science Daily)
How Do Free Electrons Originate? Jan 21, 2010
20, 2010) Scientists at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald and Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin have discovered a new way in which high-energy radiation in water can release slow electrons ... The Max Planck scientists have now discovered that two adjacent water molecules can work together in such an autoionisation process. (Science Daily)
Organized Chaos Gets Robots Going Jan 18, 2010
ttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ... "Currently, the robot would not be able to handle this task -- as soon as the obstacle is out of sight, it no longer knows which gait to use," says Marc Timme, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ... (Credit: Network Dynamics Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization). (Science Daily)
UI astronomers capture first-of-kind image at distant star Jan 14, 2010
They include the 10-telescope VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) composed of telescopes in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, and North Liberty, Iowa; a 100-meter instrument at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy near Bonn, Germany; the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) at Green Bank, W. Va. and the NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico. (EurekAlert!)
Growing Nanowires: European Research Paves Way for Faster, Smaller Microchips Jan 12, 2010
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal. (Apr. (Science Daily)
Dark Matter and Dark Energy Update Jan 12, 2010
A fourth group, led by Niv Drory of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, analyzed data on 300,000 galaxies from the to determine how galaxies have evolved over the past 8 billion years. The teams goal is to determine how many galaxies of different masses existed at different epochs in cosmic history. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
