Resonance in the press

What have newspapers and journals said about PTB? We have gathered a small selection of the latest highlights for you.

02 Dec 2019

Scientists develop new primary method for measurement of pressure

Phys.org

Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have implemented a novel pressure measurement method, partly as a byproduct...

Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have implemented a novel pressure measurement...
24 Nov 2019

New Approach in the Hunt for Dark Matter: Antimatter and Penning Traps

SciTech Daily

A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together...

the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (MPIK) and the National Metrology Institute...
15 Nov 2019

Could mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked?

Mirage News

Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE...

Darmstadt, the Leibniz University Hannover and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)...
06 Nov 2019

Time for a nuclear clock

Scienmag

UD’s Safronova and collaborators win prestigious ‘Synergy Grant’ for development of new technology and fundamental physics

Credit:...

Vienna University of Technology, Ekkehard Peik of Physicaklisch-Technishe Bundesanstalt (PTB) in...
24 Jun 2019

Elisa Pirovano: "Produciamo neutroni a energie differenti, per poi colpire i diversi materiali"

La Repubblica.it

Maneggia i neutroni come proiettili, li accelera e li scaglia contro altri atomi. "Non è solo ricerca pura", spiega Elisa Pirovano, 30...

Pirovano, 30 anni, ricercatrice in Germania presso il Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. "Ma serve anche per sviluppare tecnologie in
13 May 2019

Power to the constants!

Scienmag

On World Metrology Day, 20 May 2019, what defines a kilogram, an ampere and all the other units will change fundamentally

Credit: PTB

If...

major metrology institutes, and in particular at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the world community eventually agreed upon
08 Apr 2019

Observing a Molecule Stretch and Bend in Real-Time

Research & Development

Being able to watch how molecules bend, stretch, break, or transform, during chemical reactions requires, to an extent, state-of-the-art...

-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik in Heidelberg, and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig.

To observe this phenomenon, the
15 Mar 2019

Testing the Symmetry of Space-Time with Atomic Clocks

Before It's News

The comparison of two atomic clocks has confirmed their excellent accuracy as well as a fundamental hypothesis of the theory of relativity...

one second.

es/ptb

Contacts and sources:

Erika Schow / Dr. Nils Huntemann,

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Citation: Christian
19 Nov 2018

The Kilogram is dead! After a vote, standard measure for mass is redefined

Business Standard

A one-kilogram sphere of single-crystal silicon, one of the roundest man-made objects in the world. The object helped redefine a kilogram...

to the east, Horst Bettin, a physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Germany, was working on realizing the kilogram in a
20 Apr 2018

Scientists Are Getting Closer to The Most Accurate Clock Ever, And They're Using Thorium

Science Alert

Experiments with the metal thorium have revealed a strange quirk that could be used in a totally new class of atomic clock, paving the way...

every now and then.

Around 15 years ago, physicists from Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Germany began to take seriously the