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The Bohr model assumes that the electron moves around the nucleus, much like a planet around its star.

The planet Jupiter keeps asteroids on stable orbits – and in a similar way, electrons can be stabilized in their orbit around the atomic nucleus. Calculations carried out at…

Picture of a heavy-ion collision at CERN (copyright: CERN)

Previous theories imposed a limit on how “liquid” fluids can be. Recent results at the Vienna University of Technology suggest that this limit can be broken by a quark-gluon…

This book written by Bob Martens and Herbert Peter is devoted to the former Viennese synagogues that were destroyed and thus disappeared irretrievably from the face of the…

Magnetism - large and small

Tiny crystals exhibit unexpected properties. Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology and the S.N. Bose National Centre Kolkata can now explain why.