These eruptions on the sun eject radiation in all directions. The strongest solar flares can impact the ionized part of Earth's atmosphere – the ionosphere -…
Water vapor becomes liquid under 100 degrees Celsius – it condenses. Physicists speak of a phase transition. In this process, certain thermodynamic…
The United States and Mexico constructed the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory to observe some of the most energetic phenomena in the…
In a classical world, objects have pre-existing properties, physical influences are local and cannot travel faster than the speed of light, and it is in…
A Heidelberg-designed dust detector on the Cassini space probe – known as the cosmic dust analyser (CDA) – has identified several extremely rare and minuscule…
An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom. The engine is the…
“Kiel University is going to fly behind the moon!” said Jia Yu excitedly, a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics. Born in…
A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the…
The SuperKEKB particle accelerator at the KEK research center in Japan has recently reached a major milestone: electrons and positrons have been circulated for…
According to the study, planets with gaseous atmospheres that lie very close to their host stars are bombarded by a torrent of high-energy radiation. Due to…
The discovery allows for a clearer understanding of the magnetism in some compounds of iron, the iron arsenides, and how it helps induce superconductivity, the…
Brown dwarfs are objects that are too large to be called planets, yet too small to be stars. Having a mass of only less than seven per cent of the mass of the…
Simulations are a popular tool to study physical processes that cannot be investigated experimentally in detail. For example, scientists are challenged to…
Neutron stars are the most extreme and fascinating objects known to exist in our universe: Such a star has a mass that is up to twice that of the sun but a…
This unprecedented set of observations give us a peek into an almost entirely unexplored part of our space environment – filling a crucial gap between what…
Elemental carbon appears in many different modifications, including diamond, fullerenes and graphene. Their unique structural, electronic, mechanical,…
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