Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole in our cosmic backyard. Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black…
KIT researchers and partners suspect that much more plastic is transported in flowing waters than previously assumed and are developing new modelling approaches. Rivers play a key role in the…
Carl Zeiss Foundation supports new research project. New Halocycles project aims to develop a halogen recovery technique contributing to the stabilization of the power grid and the defossilization of the…
Scientists of the QUEST Institute at PTB have realized and evaluated a new type of optical atomic clock. They report on their results in the current issue of Nature. Optical…
DSMZ publishes unique database for the cultivation of microorganisms. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, Germany have published a freely accessible…
For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature. This breakthrough, published as the cover article of the October issue of Nature…