07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
... evolved,” added the co-leader of the study, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh. "We see an intriguing discrepancy with Planck cosmology at the moment. Future missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope...
27 January 2017
Distant quasars help refine the rate of the expanding Universe
... state that these tests are indirect, and that the Planck measurement relies on some assumptions, for example that the...the H0LiCOW collaboration. Lead by Sherry Suyu at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, Suyu and team have measured ...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
...better option. This is what a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now found. Called...new study Dr. René Heller who is based at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen. Given the...
28 December 2016
Discrepancies in data suggest less dark matter now than after the big bang
... proportion of unstable particles in the composition of dark matter was no more than 2 - 5 percent. According to data from the Planck space telescope, "ordinary" matter, such as stars and galaxies make up only 4.9 percent of all of the matter in the...
01 February 2016
How to Make Intelligent Robots That Understand the World
...? What if we could teach them to autonomously deal with completely novel situations? Danko Nikolić, a neuroscientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, has his own vision: a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could give...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
.... Figure 6 shows the effectiveness of a particular plasma source, the ‘surface micro-discharge’ electrode, developed at the Max Planck Institute and hence developed further (to a ‘thin film electrode’) by terraplasma GmbH (a spin-off company from the...
