Mind-boggling diversity

From self-driving cars to innovative lighting technology: the German Patent and Trademark Office presents ideas with a bright future.

Physicists Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert discovered giant magnetoresistance (GMR). This was used to increase the capacity of hard drives as early as…

The discovery of nuclear fission was one of the most momentous of the 20th century.

A passenger ship sinks – and becomes the focus of attention for researchers all over the world. Shortly after the sinking of the Titanic, physicist…

The act of locating ships is no longer remarkable today. But it was in Christian Hülsmeyer’s day: in the early 20^th century, the technology enthusiast…

It is the oldest type of electrical capacitor: the Leyden jar. Its physical principle was discovered in the 18th century.