An international research team led by Silke Britzen of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has discovered the first ...

The Max Planck Society is expanding its collaboration with China: On April 13, two new Max Planck Centers were officially ...

Steel production is currently the biggest single cause of global warming, responsible for about seven percent of global CO 2 emissions. To cut these emissions, scientists and industry are intensively ...

Proposal for embedded ethics, based on dynamic dialogue, to facilitate ethically responsible research with stem-cell-based embryo models.

The individual steps of nest-building are instinctive, but only through practice do the fish become true masters.

Volatile brood pheromone: The larvae of the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi produce a specific volatile compound ...

Research shows that paying attention to alcohol ads heightens cravings and leads to increased consumption, highlighting the ...

The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung at Mülheim an der Ruhr is more than one hundred years old, making it one of the Max Planck Society's oldest institutes. Time and again, the Institute has ...

The human brain analyses nutrient-related and hormonal signals of the body periphery and controls by hunger and saturation induction the energy homeostasis. This central nervous control is complex and ...

Computer systems permeate our daily life. In addition to conventional desktop computing and Internet applications, sophisticated software systems can be found in almost all technical devices, from ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence of a biological cause for the impairments caused by the disease ...