New Instrument Continues Gathering Sun's Effects on the Earth

Total solar irradiance (shown in color) over the past three solar cycles since 1978 adjusted to a ground-...
Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at...
Turning waste into power with bacteria — and loofahs

Loofahs, thanks to their large pores, have emerged as a potential new tool to advance sustainability efforts on two fronts at the same time...
Curing Cancer with Magnetic Nanoparticles

Iron particles inside a tumor spin in an alternating magnetic field, generating enough heat to cook the cancer.
A Fiery Drama of Star Birth and Death
Comet ISON: has this lonely traveller reached the end of its journey?

An image of Comet ISON, captured by the Hubble Telescope
A new simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena: Scientists at MPQ develop a new model for realizing the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in lattice systems

Illustration of the lattice model where each particle is either in a ‘spin up’ or a ‘spin down’ state.