When Gabriel Lippmann collected the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics, he did so for an invention he himself admitted was of limited practical use. His method of colour photography, based on optical ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the Planck length ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

With the onset of fall, viral infections are occurring more frequently again. Dr. Sascha Kupke, team leader in the Bioprocess Engineering research group at the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg, will ...