Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

Electrons hold the world together. When chemical reactions yield new substances, they play a leading role. And in electronics, too, they are the protagonists. Together with his colleagues, Ferenc Krausz, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, photographs the rapid movements of electrons with attosecond flashes, creating the basis for new technological developments. more

The scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is honoured for his contributions to attosecond physics more

Two physicists and a developmental biologist will head the three new Dioscuri Centres in the Czech Republic. more

With the James Webb space telescope, an international team has captured a spectacular image of the object HH211. Here, a young stellar system ejects two supersonic streams of gas, which testify to the turbulent process of star formation inside the system. more

New physics-based self-learning machines could replace the current artificial neural networks and save energy more

New computer simulation of the universe as a promising multitool more

James Webb Space Telescope observations find water for the first time in the inner disk around a young star with giant planets. more

Satellite operator SpaceX cooperates with radio astronomy more

How an exoplanet survived the rebellion of its home star more

Precise as a clock: pulsars in the Milky Way form large-scale observatory for gravitational waves more