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12 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 9, 2026.
A 3.5-meter chamber filled with sulfur hexafluoride at up to 19 bar can produce several storm-like convection rolls at once, structures too complex to simulate even on supercomputers.
Max Planck researchers in Hamburg used trillionth-of-a-second electrical pulses to drive current past the usual limit, reaching the intrinsic threshold where the pairs of electrons that carry the current are torn apart.
eROSITA's second data release stacks three full-sky scans from Spektr-RG's first 556 days, nearly doubling the original catalog. Paired with Sloan spectroscopy, it shows fast-growing black holes were more common in the early universe than expected.
A German team calibrated infrared measurements with hand-made glass beads and got 37% SiO₂, not the 62% in earlier estimates. BepiColombo arrives in orbit in November to check.
A Fresnel lens, a cone-shaped concentrator and a millimeter of crystal produced photon pairs 94% faithful to a perfect entangled state — and they violated Bell's inequality.
A Max Planck team says soft lithium 'dendrites' pierce hard ceramic electrolytes like a waterjet cutting through rock. Solving the puzzle could unlock safer, longer-lasting solid-state batteries for phones and EVs.
Oxford and Max Planck scientists say tightly bound black-hole binaries act as cosmic lenses, magnifying background stars into repeating flashes that betray their presence.
Astronomers detected sharply different conditions at the dawn and dusk edges of an ultra-hot gas giant, a feat made possible only by the space telescope’s sensitivity.
Researchers at Oxford and the Max Planck Institute propose hunting elusive supermassive black hole binaries by watching for repeating flashes of background starlight bent and magnified as the pair orbits.
A dust trap in the infant solar system acted as a breeding ground, producing generation after generation of planetary building blocks, a new study finds.
A Max Planck and University of Ottawa team violated Bell's inequality and reconstructed a hidden image using only sunlight focused on a nonlinear crystal — overturning a textbook assumption about coherence and quantum optics.
Direct imaging by the James Webb Space Telescope of a 7.6-Jupiter-mass world 12 light-years away revealed thick patchy clouds of water ice and far less ammonia than predicted, forcing astronomers to revisit decades-old atmospheric models.