A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; ...

Artist's impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. CREDIT Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Five years on from the first discovery of ...

Scientists on the hunt for a previously undetected type of gravitational waves believe they are getting close and have refined techniques to use in upcoming observational runs. Researchers from the ...

The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has now entered an 18-month run of continuous measurement. Researchers are optimistic that they will be able to observe a never before seen ...

When searching for lost keys, there are a number of possible strategies. You might try moving from room to room, casting your eye over every flat surface, in the hope of spotting the missing keys. Of ...

Spin doctors Meg Millhouse, Lucy Strang and Karl Wette are using gravitational-wave detectors to study rotating neutron stars. (Courtesy: OzGrav) The LIGO–Virgo observatories are three kilometre-scale ...

In recent years, physicists have been trying to better understand the behavior of individual quantum particles as they move in space. Yet directly imaging these particles with high precision has so ...

Every Wi-Fi router, FM radio station, and reading lamp relies on the same physical phenomenon: electromagnetic waves ...