Hunting Down the Invisible (from Magazine 1/2013)

	Hunting Down the Invisible
	Magazine 1/2013
	If cosmologists are correct, there is a form of matter in the universe that is six times more abundant than the matter we know. It is invisible, which is why it’s called dark matter. Postulated for the first time 80 years ago, it has yet to be detected ...

Tinkering in Uncharted Technological Territory (from issue 3/2008)

	Engineers at the mechanics division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik devise innovative solutions for scientific experiments. [3379 KB]

A Bridge to the Big Bang (from issue 3/2007)

	The beginnings of the universe bring Albert Einstein to the limits of his knowledge – the laws of the general theory of relativity, which describe the universe on a large scale, do not apply to the Big Bang. In fact, at its beginning, the cosmos ... [477.6 KB]

240 Elephants in a Tunnel (from issue 2/2007)

	The end of 2007 will see particle physicists setting protons on a collision course through the Large Hadron Collider with more energy than ever before. Their intention is to track down the Higgs boson and solve the problem of why the universe contains ... [8192 KB]