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    Europe puts brakes on fusion project  Nov 20, 2009
    There is also concern among European s involved in the project that the present schedule might be risky, according to Gnther Hasinger, the scientific director of the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. The EU is responsible for buildings and other major infrastructure at the 180-hectare ITER site. (Scientific American)

    A bubbling ball of gas  Nov 12, 2009
    The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in Germany, Spain and the USA, has now delivered images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved ... "Thanks to its excellent optical quality, the SUFI instrument was able to depict the very small magnetic structures with high intensity contrast, while the IMaX instrument simultaneously... (EurekAlert!)

    Dark energy rips cosmos and agencies  Oct 28, 2009
    Simon White, director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, questions whether it is worthwhile to spend a billion dollars just to show, with more precision, that dark energy is a constant. "There s nothing to look for," says White. (Scientific American)

    How To See a Black Hole  Oct 27, 2009
    Recently, Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, by running existing data through a new model that mimics the galaxy star by star. Unlike earlier efforts, their model also takes into account the unseen halo of dark matter that surround the visible portion of the galaxy. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Galileo upended science  Oct 25, 2009
    German nuclear physicist Max Planck understood that old theories die hard. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die," he wrote. (iAfrica.com)

    Denying consensus science is dumb and dangerous  Oct 17, 2009
    Fact: The prestigous Max Planck Institute has also recently stated that it the 'Sun' that is the prime driver of climate change. There are many reasons to deny what is properly called 'Global Warming. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Investigating Nanopillars: Silicon Brittle? Not This Kind!  Oct 14, 2009
    Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal. (Aug. (Science Daily)

    Israeli woman wins Nobel Prize (478)  Oct 10, 2009
    In 2000, teams at the Weizmann Institute and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany both headed by Prof. Yonath solved, for the first time, the complete spatial structure of both subunits of a bacterial ribosome. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Classical Chaos Occurs In The Quantum World, Scientists Find  Oct 9, 2009
    7, 2005) Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, investigating the chaotic behaviour of the quantum world, have been able to give the first ever demonstration of quantum chaos during atom. (July 28, 2009) Scientists in Brazil report the controllable formation of quantum turbulence in an ultra-cold atom gas. (Science Daily)

    Just A Yoctosecond: Shortest Flashes From Ultra-hot Matter  Oct 7, 2009
    Calculations at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Theoretical Physics) have now shown that high-energy heavy ion collisions at large particle accelerators are suitable as light sources for the desired single and double pulses. This is due to the remarkable properties of quark-gluon plasmas. (Science Daily)

    Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners  Oct 7, 2009
    Nobel Laureates you must know: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Pierre & Marie Curie, Max Planck and Albert Einstein. 7. (CNN)

    All Eyes on Nobel Physics Prize  Oct 6, 2009
    There is also sentiment gaining that Juan Ignacio Circ, directory of theory division at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, could share the prize with Peter Zoller of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck for their research into quantum optics and quantum computing. Similarly, John B. Pendry of Britain, Sheldon Schultz at the University of California, San Diego, and David R. Smith at Duke University could be tapped for what Thomson Reuters Scientific... (CBS News)

    Schrödinger's virus  Oct 4, 2009
    A pair of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, now propose to do what Schr. dinger could not, and put a living organism into a state of quantum superposition. (The Economist)

    Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays  Oct 3, 2009
    The H.E.S.S. collaboration under the overall lead management of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics involves more than 150 researchers from Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Armenia, South Africa and Namibia. Related Link. (EurekAlert!)

    Vanderbilt astronomers participate in new search for dark energy  Oct 2, 2009
    SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration, including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, University of Cambridge, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for... (EurekAlert!)

    MRI, solar cells, aging work are Nobel favorites  Sep 26, 2009
    Juan Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues are noted for work has making possible quantum computers -- immeasurably fast computers that use the weird qualities found in quantum physics such as the ability of a particle to be in two states at once. For economics, Pendlebury favors Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich in Switzerland for behavioral economics, including issues of preferences, fairness and cooperation. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates  Sep 24, 2009
    USA -- For their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin List Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and Honorary Professor, University of Cologne Cologne, Germany -- For his development of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Ignacio Cirac Director of... (PR Newswire)

    CMU professor investigates black holes  Aug 31, 2009
    Previous positions: Professor of astrophysics and research associate, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany, 2003-05; postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, 1998-2001 ... D. at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, did postdoctoral work at Harvard University, started her research at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, and then joined her husband, Rupert Croft, at Carnegie Mellon's physics department. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Echoes Of The Birth Of The Universe  Aug 20, 2009
    Maria Alessandra Papa, senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the head of the LSC overall data analysis effort adds, "Hundreds of scientists work very hard to produce fundamental results like this one: the instrument scientists who design, commission and operate the detectors, the teams who prepare the data for the astrophysical searches and the data analysts who develop and implement sensitive techniques to look for these very weak and elusive signals in the... (Science Daily)

    Vanquishing infinity  Aug 18, 2009
    Their new results are reported in Physical Review Letters () and highlighted in a commentary by Hermann Nicolai at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, in Physics (). Previous attempts at removing the fatal infinities in quantum gravity calculations collapsed when researchers discovered that you would need an infinite number of parameters. (EurekAlert!)

    Betelgeuse: A Hotheaded Superstar  Aug 4, 2009
    A second team, led by Keiichi Ohnaka (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy), coupled the output from three 1. 8-meter telescopes at the VLT site to create an near-infrared interferometer with a virtual aperture some 157 feet (48 meters) across. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Breakdown In Planck's Law Of Heat Transfer  Jul 31, 2009
    Planck's blackbody radiation law, formulated in 1900 by German physicist Max Planck, describes how energy is dissipated, in the form of different wavelengths of radiation, from an idealized non-reflective black object, called a blackbody. The law says that the relative thermal emission of radiation at different wavelengths follows a precise pattern that varies according to the temperature of the object. (Science Daily)

    Cell Membranes Applied To Manufactured Surfaces Could Lead To New Class Of Self-assembling Materials  Jul 26, 2009
    Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. (Mar. (Science Daily)

    EXTRA CREDIT  Jul 13, 2009
    Northway, an engineering physics major in the engineering honors program, is participating in a three-month summer internship at the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Claire M. Northway, East Gull Lake, recently graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)

    Innovative Technology Shatters The Barriers Of Modern Light Microscopy  Jul 6, 2009
    ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum M. nchen and the Technische Universit. (Science Daily)

    Largest Ever Survey Of Very Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed  Jul 3, 2009
    H.K.C. Yee of the University of Toronto, Canada; Mark Lacy and Jason Surace of the Spitzer Science Center/California Institute of Technology; Henk Hoekstra of Leiden University; Michael Balogh and David Gilbank of the University of Waterloo, Canada; Kris Blindert of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany; Subhabrata Majumdar of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India; Jonathan P. Gardner of the Goddard Space Flight Center; Mike Gladders of the University of Chicago; and Carol... (Science Daily)

    "Geyser" Moon Sprinkles Salt on Saturn's Rings  Jun 25, 2009
    "It's really hard to explain [salt in the E ring], other than [the theory] that there is a saltwater reservoir feeding the plumes. That's by far the most plausible explanation," said study co-author Frank Postberg, of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. In a paper appearing in this week's issue of the journal Nature, Postberg suggests that water exists in deep caverns under the moon's ice. (National Geographic)

    A "Briny Deep" Inside Enceladus?  Jun 25, 2009
    Frank Postberg (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) and others reveal that about 6% of the tiny particles in Saturn's E ring are quite salty, containing up to 1;% sodium chloride (NaCl). This makes sense if the ocean inside Enceladus has been in contact with deep-seated rocks for millions of years, long enough for sodium and other elements to leach into the water. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Saturn moon hints it could host life  Jun 25, 2009
    Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg said the presence of sodium salts was compelling evidence, indicating salty minerals were washed out from rock on Enceladus in the same way oceans absorb salt on Earth. He and colleagues reported that they had found salty grains of ice after analyzing data from Cassini s cosmic dust detector as it flew through Saturn s outermost ring, where Enceladus orbits. (Boston Globe)

    Meteorite grains divulge Earth's cosmic roots  Jun 16, 2009
    Ulrich Ott, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. Matthias M.M. Meier, Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, Zurich, Switzerland. (EurekAlert!)

    Goal: Developing The Best Atomic Clock In The World  Jun 5, 2009
    It is already a prime example of good cooperation between completely different but perfectly complementary partners: Next to PTB as the state research institute of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) with its special knowledge in the field of metrology, i.e. precise measurement technologies, there are six institutes from the Leibniz University of Hannover, the Laser Zentrum Hannover, the German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 in Ruthe, the Center of Applied Space Technology and... (Science Daily)

    Einstein’s General Theory Of Relativity: Celebrating The 20th Century's Most Important Experiment  Jun 2, 2009
    (July 31, 2006) With the "Genesis of General Relativity," the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has just published the most comprehensive study to date of the structures of a scientific revolution. The. (Science Daily)

    Breakthrough In Quantum Control Of Light  May 31, 2009
    7, 2004) Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have proposed a scheme to transfer the quantum state of a pulse of light onto a set. . (Science Daily)

    Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years  May 28, 2009
    Bower's colleagues are Andreas Bunthaler, Karl M. Menten and Christian Henkel of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany; Mark J. Reid of Harvard University's Center for Astrophysics; and Heino Falcke of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The radio supernova was discovered on April 8 in M82, a small irregular galaxy located nearly 12 million light years from Earth in the M81 galaxy group, by the Very Large Array, a New Mexico facility operated by the National... (EurekAlert!)

    * Science Express brings future one station at a time  May 24, 2009
    Peter Steiner of the Max Planck Society, which runs the train along with some of Germanys leading companies such as Siemens and Volkswagen, was delighted with the public response to the project, which was officially opened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 24. Its only our first day and we have already had over 2,000 visitors with 400 or 500 children, he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better  May 23, 2009
    Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and at the National Astronomical Institute of Italy have now found a way to use these. (Nov. (Science Daily)

    Fast Laser Research And Theory Building On Einsten's Work By Timing Electrons Emissions  May 23, 2009
    7, 2005) Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, investigating the chaotic behaviour of the quantum world, have been able to give the first ever demonstration of quantum chaos during atom. . (Science Daily)

    Fundamental Mechanism For Cell Organization Discovered  May 23, 2009
    The discovery, which was made during the 2008 Physiology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), is reported in the May 21 early online edition of Science by Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, and their colleagues, including Frank J. licher of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, also in Dresden. (Science Daily)

    Astronomy: Peek-a-boo  May 15, 2009
    Max Planck founded quantum theory, and thus wrecked the Newtonian universe. And William Herschel discovered Uranus, the first planet unknown to the astrologers of old. (The Economist)

    Two Telescopes to Measure the Big Bang  May 15, 2009
    The Planck telescope, named after the German physicist Max Planck, aims to reveal more about how the universe was formed nearly 14 billion years ago by mapping "fossil light." This relic radiation of the Big Bang part of the Cosmic Microwave Background should tell astronomers more about how the large-scale structures of the universe formed and evolved. Planck will also attempt an extraordinary mathematical feat: calculating the total number of atoms in the universe. (Time.com)

    Composing across continents  May 15, 2009
    The concert will bring together three large ensembles: the symphony, Oregon State University Brass Ensemble and the Max Planck High School Big Band from Schorndorf, Germany ... The third premiere will be an arrangement that combines the visiting Max Planck High School Big Band with the symphony orchestra ... Director Martin Drechsler founded the the Max Planck High School Big Band in 1998 and has taken the group on three previous U.S. tours in 2002, 2004, 2006. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Global Warming Curbed By Lead Pollution  May 13, 2009
    At the Sphinx Observatory, a Swiss research station on the Jungfraujoch at an altitude of 3,580 meters, scientists from various institutions, including the Universities of Frankfurt and Mainz, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, investigated the chemical composition of clouds in the winters of 2006 and 2007 ... The atmospheric physicist is the head of the "Department of Particle Chemistry, a joint venture of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Institute for... (Science Daily)

    Microscope Capable Of Live Imaging At Double The Resolution Of Fluorescence Microscopy Developed  May 12, 2009
    (June 3, 2005) Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry in G. ttingen establish a new law allowing unlimited optical resolution in fluorescence. (Science Daily)

    AGU Journal highlights -- May 6, 2009  May 7, 2009
    Markus Reichstein: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10. (EurekAlert!)

    Salt in ice plumes hint at liquid sea on Saturn's moon  May 1, 2009
    According to a report in New Scientist, Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues, found traces of sodium in the form of salt and sodium bicarbonate. The chemicals would have originated in the rocky core of Enceladus, so to reach a plume they must have leached from the core via liquid water. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    New signs of hidden sea on Saturn moon  May 1, 2009
    At a meeting of European geoscientists in Vienna last week, Frank Postberg with Germany's Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and colleagues explained that the sodium is, in fact, there it was simply bound in a form (sodium chloride) not detectable by Earth-bound telescopes. "This is only possible if the plume source is liquid water that is or has been in contact with the rocky material of Enceladus' core," the scientists wrote in the EGU General Assembly's 2009 Geophysical Research... (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Pizza Tossing Art Unlocks Secrets Of Tiny Motors  Apr 29, 2009
    22, 2005) Max Planck scientists show that the cooperation of a small number of molecular motors yields cargo transport over large. (Mar. (Science Daily)

    At The Limits Of The Photoelectric Effect  Apr 28, 2009
    7, 2005) Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, investigating the chaotic behaviour of the quantum world, have been able to give the first ever demonstration of quantum chaos during atom. (Oct. (Science Daily)

    Spider silk-metal combo makes for tough tool  Apr 28, 2009
    It could make very strong thread for surgical operations, researcher Seung-Mo Lee of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany, said in a telephone interview. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Magic in gamma ray astronomy  Apr 28, 2009
    However, the project's manager Florian Goebel of the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich (MPI) died while working on the telescope's camera a week before the initial inauguration date. Speed limit. (BBC News -- Science)

    Bridging the gap in nanoantennas  Apr 20, 2009
    In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Fsica de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology ... They mapped the near-field oscillations of the different antennas with... (EurekAlert!)

    Next Generation Nanofilms Created  Apr 20, 2009
    Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research ... 9, 2007) As thin as it gets: the carbon membranes recently created by Max Planck scientists are only one atom thick. (Science Daily)

    Martin Klein, at 84; editor of Einstein papers collection  Apr 5, 2009
    Dr. Klein had done previous work on Einstein and had analyzed the research of Einstein's fellow physicists Max Planck, Erwin Schroedinger, Niels Bohr, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Paul Ehrenfest. In 1970, he published a biography, "Paul Ehrenfest: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist" (North Holland Publishing Co.). (Boston Globe)

    How Do We Support Today's Einsteins?  Apr 3, 2009
    When Max Planck accidentally discovered quantum theory, he kick-started the most significant scientific revolution of the 20th century; his colleague, Wilhelm R. ntgen's experiments with cathode rays led inadvertently to the discovery of X-rays, which ultimately revolutionised modern medical practice; and US physicists at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, detected cosmic wave background radiation -- the echo of the Big Bang -- when trying to get rid of the annoying noise being picked up... (Science Daily)

    New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars  Mar 25, 2009
    The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is the largest research institute in the world devoted to the study of general relativity ... The Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics is supported by the Max Planck Society and the University of Hannover. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    Holy photons  Mar 25, 2009
    Originated in work conducted by Max Planck and Albert Einstein at start of 20th Century They discovered that light comes in discrete packets, or quanta, which we call photons The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle says certain features of subatomic particles like momentum and position cannot be known precisely at the same time Gaps remain, like attempts to find the 'God Particle' that scientists hope to spot in the Large Hadron Collider. It is required to give other particles mass. (BBC News -- Science)

    Joint ESA/NASA mission using SPICE to explore the center of the solar system  Mar 22, 2009
    Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (United Kingdom), Max Planck Institute (Germany), Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (France) and Institute for Theoretical Physics (Norway). The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is currently scheduled for launch in 2017. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    Physicists Offer New Theory For Iron Compounds  Mar 20, 2009
    16, 2007) A team of physicists from Rice University, Rutgers University, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, reports this week in the journal Science the discovery. (July 22, 2008) Physicists have gained new insight into the origins of superconductivity -- a property of metals where electrical resistance vanishes -- by studying exotic chemical compounds that contain neptunium. (Science Daily)

    Transparent Metal Under Pressure?  Mar 14, 2009
    To test this unexpected prediction, Ma and Oganov contacted Mikhail Eremets, the leader of an experimental group at Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, Mainz (Germany). Eremets was initially skeptical of the Ma-Oganov predictions, yet he was undeterred by extreme technical challenges of reaching pressures of over 2 million atmospheres. (Science Daily)

    Chimp collects rocks to throw at people later  Mar 11, 2009
    The observations confirmed the result of a staged laboratory experiment reported in 2006 by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In that case, orangutans and bonobos were able to figure out which tool would work in an effort to retrieve grapes, and were able to remember to bring that tool along hours later. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    More Than Just a Theory -- New Book Introduces Theories On Space, Time, and Matter  Feb 26, 2009
    After years of working in the electronic industry, he worked in the Max Planck Institute for Physics under the direction of Werner Heisenberg, leading discoverer of quantum mechanics. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States, where for the next forty-five years he taught graduate level physics at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. (Primezone Releases)

    Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Ever  Feb 23, 2009
    A team led by Jochen Greiner at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, established that the blast occurred 12. 2 billion light-years away using the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (GROND) on the 2. (Science Daily)

    Astronomers spot 'strongest-ever gamma ray explosion'  Feb 21, 2009
    Subsequently, a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, established that the blast occurred 12. 2 billion light-years away using the Gamma- Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector on the telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    NASA Spacecraft Falling For Mars  Feb 20, 2009
    Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; DLR Institute for Planetary Research, Berlin; Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome; and the Italian Space Agency. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va. (Science Daily)

    Scientists excited by universe's brightest explosion  Feb 20, 2009
    Using the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector (GROND) on a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, a team led by Jochen Greiner of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics determined that the huge gamma-ray burst occurred 12. 2 billion light years away. (The Age, Australia -- World)

    NASA's Fermi sees most extreme Gamma-ray blast  Feb 20, 2009
    Nearly 32 hours after the blast, Jochen Greiner of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, led a group that searched for the explosion's fading afterglow. The team simultaneously captured the field in seven wavelengths using the Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector, or GROND, on the 2. (Xinhuanet, China)

    PU researchers figure in another LHC project  Feb 17, 2009
    Their participation is supported by Union department of science and technology and Max Planck Institute, Germany, with DST meeting the travel and living expenses. Zeus is one of the largest multi-purpose detectors and research at Zeus focuses on investigating the structure of the proton, fundamental interactions between particles and on searches for physics beyond the standard model. (Times of India)

    A New View of Galaxy Formation  Feb 11, 2009
    Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute, whose group is collaborating with the HU researchers. Each galaxy contains about 100 billion radiant stars such as our Sun. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Black Holes Linked With Galaxy Creation  Feb 8, 2009
    John Kormendy of the University of Texas at Austin and Ralf Bender of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics used the Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes around the world to study the biggest galaxies in the universe -- "elliptical galaxies" -- that are shaped roughly like footballs and can be made of as many as a thousand billion stars. Virtually all of those galaxies contain a black hole at their center. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Super-resolution Microscopy In 3-D  Feb 7, 2009
    15, 2006) A microscope used to scan nanostructures can be dramatically enhanced by using a "superlens," reports an international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and the. . (Science Daily)

    Holographic Universe: Discovery Could Herald New Era In Fundamental Physics  Feb 7, 2009
    GEO600 is a joint project of scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, or AEI), Leibniz Universit ... It is funded jointly by the Max Planck Society in Germany and the Science and Technology Facilities Council in UK. ... Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). (Science Daily)

    Stars Form At Record Speeds In Infant Galaxy  Feb 7, 2009
    Recent measurements of an international team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy provide the first concrete evidence that star-forming regions in infant galaxies are indeed small - but also hyperactive, producing stars at astonishingly high rates ... An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy is now much closer to being able to answer these questions ... "This galaxy's rate of star production is simply astonishing," says the... (Science Daily)


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