news 2009

The NASA IBEX mission has sent back data that indicates a "noodle soup" of solar material has accumulated at the outer fringes of the heliosphere bubble. Science paper to describe unexpected structural features shown by LANL camera The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies.

SwissCube, the first Swiss satellite in history—extremely small —has been successfully launched from the Sriharikota space station in India.

An international group of researchers has developed and tested a new generation of photovoltaic cells in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Viennese scientists are trying to understand the mysteries of the holographic principle: How many dimensions are there in our universe? Some of the brightest minds of the world are doing research work in this sector - and still have not succeeded so far: Creating a unified theory of quantum gravitation is often considered to be the "Holy Grail" of modern science.

Viennese scientists are trying to understand the mysteries of the holographic principle: How many dimensions are there in our universe? Some of the brightest minds of the world are doing research work in this sector - and still have not succeeded so far: Creating a unified theory of quantum gravitation is often considered to be the 'Holy Grail' of modern science.