Cosmic chemistry: Astronomers have discovered methanol molecules around a protostar for the first time, in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by the...
Mysterious X-ray flashes: Minute-long X-ray explosions of unclear origin are puzzling astronomers. Now a cosmic explosion reveals: These long X-ray flashes are not caused...
Is a collapse coming? The dwarf planet Pluto is currently moving away from the sun. This has consequences: Pluto's atmosphere has been getting thinner...
Celestial spectacle: Friday morning shortly before sunrise there will be a deep partial lunar eclipse: the earth's shadow will darken around 93 percent of...
Planetary division: The planet Mars not only has plateaus and depressions distributed unequally across the hemispheres, its interior is also surprisingly asymmetrical. The Martian...
Inexplicably massive: Detectors repeatedly capture gravitational waves from black holes that are in an actually “forbidden” mass range. Now astronomers may have found an...
Wave packets in free fall: An experiment with ultracold atoms demonstrates that Einstein's equivalence principle also applies to quantum objects. In the test, the...
Target approach to Mercury: The crucial phase for the European-Japanese Mercury mission BepiColombo begins this afternoon - the first step of the complex final...
Photoelectric breakthrough: Physicists have for the first time measured the quantum state of key players in semiconductors - the quasiparticles that enable the conversion...
Theoretically, the entire space should be filled with a diffuse background noise of supernova neutrinos - elementary particles that have been released in stellar...
The phenomenon of quantum entanglement is less fragile than expected: Even when Higgs bosons decay in the world's most powerful particle accelerator, quantum-physically entangled...
Although Erwin Schrödinger co-founded modern quantum theory and significantly enriched it with his equation formulated in 1926, he was not convinced of its counterintuitive...