Inner Structure of Heavy Atomic Nuclei is Becoming Clearer
In what is deemed a crucial breakthrough, a team of international physicists were able to determine the strength of the shell stability in heavy nuclei…
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New Insights into How Superconducting Materials Interact with Magnetic Ones
An international team of physicists have gained new insights into how superconducting materials interact with magnetic ones, discovering charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and…
Investigating the Evolutionary Model of Muller’s Ratchet
Two new studies examined the process is known as Muller’s ratchet, giving a quantitative understanding of the ratchet’s processes and showing why populations my not…
A Step Forward in Understanding the Cause of Dyslexia
A team of scientists have taken a step forward in understanding the cause of dyslexia and for developing potential treatments by discovering a malfunction in…
Twisting Affects Transmission Behavior of Photonic Crystal Fibers
Max Planck Institute scientists examined the transmission behavior of photonic crystal fibers when they were twisted, finding that the transmission of certain wavelengths becomes much…
Plants Choose and Make Use of the Bacteria They Allow into Their Roots
Newly published research from scientists at Max Planck Institute suggests that plants choose to allow certain species of bacteria access to the roots, providing the…
Scientists Identify the Characteristic Brain Activities of Lucid Awareness
By comparing the brain activity during a lucid dream with the activity measured in a normal dream, scientists at the Max Planck Institute were able…
H.E.S.S. II Telescope Starts Operation and Detects its Very First Images
With a 28-meter mirror and a mass of almost 600 tons, the H.E.S.S. II telescope is up and running, detecting its very first images of…
Newly Discovered Gamma-Ray Pulsar J1838-0537
By employing new optimal algorithms on their ATLAS computer cluster to help go through Fermi data, scientists from the Max Planck Institute discovered the 5,000…
Quantum Entanglement between Widely Separated Atoms
Scientists have demonstrated a method of heralding entanglement between spins of two single rubidium-87 atoms trapped independently 20 meters apart, paving the way towards quantum…
Unexpectedly Slow Plasma Flow Measured Below the Sun’s Surface
Using data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard SDO, a team of scientists were able to determine the flow velocities at a depth…
Quasar 3C 279 Shown in Unprecedented Sharpness
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona) to create an interferometer,…
Linguistics Research May Improve Future Internet Search Engines
By translating ten different English texts into various codes, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems found a long-range correlation…
Ajuba Regulates Stem Cell Activity in the Heart
Using an animal model, scientists investigated the effects of a defective switch on cardiac development, finding that Ajuba plays a central role in regulating the…
RadioAstron, An International Project for VLBI Observations in Space
Using interferometric measurements to achieve extremely high angular resolutions, the RadioAstron mission will enable astronomers to study scientific topics like particle acceleration near supermassive black…
Hybridization Leads to New Pathogen Species
A newly published study from scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that new fungi,…
β-Catenin Regulates Telomerase in Stem Cells and Cancer Cells
New insights from stem cell research could possibly lead to new approaches for the treatment of human tumors. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of…
Gas Cloud Headed Towards Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…