German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel ...

(Phys.org) —Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang – was released today revealing the ...

Rice and Max Planck Partnership” (Q-RaMP) between Rice University and the Max Planck Society is to promote the identification ...

While various studies have hinted at the existence of dark matter, its nature, composition and underlying physics remain poorly understood. In recent years, physicists have been theorizing about and ...

The universe is 100 million years older than thought, according to the best-ever map of the oldest light in space. The adjustment brings the universe's age to 13.82 billion years, and means space and ...

The remarkable thing about our universe is that it’s possible to explore at least some of its inner workings with very simple tools. Gravity is one example, to which [Galileo]’s inclined planes and ...

Quarks and leptons, the building blocks of matter, are staggeringly small. Even the largest quarks are only about an attometer (a billionth of a billionth of a meter) in diameter. But zoom in closer—a ...