These days, Max Planck’s name comes up most by way of the prestigious scientific institutes named after him. (The Max Planck Society runs 83 throughout Germany and the world.) But who was the ...

Without Planck championing Einstein, the young outsider—an eventual close friend also prone to changing his mind—the history of physics and technology might have been very different.

Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...

First ever picture of a black hole could be taken within days, scientists say Getting a look at the phenomenon – perhaps the most important portrait ever taken – requires linking observatories ...

Vanessa Ogle, who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences this term as an associate professor of history, is one of two historians recently awarded a prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal. Ogle, ...

The European-led team behind the Planck cosmology probe on Thursday released the mission's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background — a post-big-bang "baby picture" that suggests our ...

On March 31, 2013, the European Space Agency released the Planck spacecraft’s picture of the universe, capturing the temperature differences found in the cosmic microwave background, CMB.