News tagged with max


A new kind of counting: Scientists develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problems

A new kind of counting: Scientists develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problems

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- How many different sudokus are there? How many different ways are there to color in the countries on a map? And how do atoms behave in a solid? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...


Looking Back 13.8 Billion Years: The countdown for Planck satellite has started

Looking Back 13.8 Billion Years: The countdown for Planck satellite has started

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The Planck satellite is set to eavesdrop with hitherto unsurpassed precision on the echo of the Big Bang, thereby providing a sharp image of the infancy of the Universe. The satellite is due to be launched ...


Single factor converts adult stem cells into embryonic-like stem cells

Biology /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The simple recipe scientists earlier discovered for making adult stem cells behave like embryonic-like stem cells just got even simpler. A new report in the February 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, ...


The Galaxy J1148+5251

Infant galaxies -- small and hyperactive

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Galaxies, including our own Milky Way, consist of hundreds of billions of stars. How did such gigantic galactic systems come into being? Did a central region with stars first form then with time grow? Or did ...


Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for ...


The path to history is through the stomach

The path to history is through the stomach

Biology /

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. Over half of the world’s inhabitants carrys this bacterium, but different variants are present on different continents. Up to now, ...


Nanocrack Evolution

Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


A crystal clear view of chalk formation

A crystal clear view of chalk formation

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...


Tiny lasers get a notch up

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, ...


Parasites in the genome - A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution

Parasites in the genome -- A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


A crystal clear view of chalk formation

A crystal clear view of chalk formation

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...


A good night's sleep protects against parasites

Biology /

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Animal species that sleep for longer do not suffer as much from parasite infestation and have a greater concentration of immune cells in their blood according to a study published in the open-access journal BMC Evolutionary Bi ...


HTC WiMAX 4G Mobile Phone

HTC Unveils World's First GSM/WiMAX Mobile Phone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 14, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- HTC has just announced the world's first GSM/WiMAX headset. The device will be available in Russia on the Yota Mobile WiMAX network. The MAX 4G appears similar to the super high-end HTC Touch ...


What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)

What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (43) | comments 20

Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing ...



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