In the summer of 2022, less than a full month after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had begun to produce its first scientific images, astronomers noticed something unexpected: little red dots.
New research field: Peter Hegemann (formerly of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) and Georg Nagel (formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics), together with Carl Deisseroth (Stanford ...
Superconductivity is one of the most striking collective phenomena in quantum materials. When certain materials are cooled below a characteristic transition temperature, their electrical resistance ...
Canaries have been domesticated since the 15 th century and are the descendants of the wild canary that lives on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. Like their wild ...
A new study by an international research team provides the first systematic, cross-cultural comparison of how children help their peers. While previous research has mainly focused on how children help ...
Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...
Peter Hans Hofschneider, for whom the award is named, was born in Stuttgart on February 14, 1929. He studied medicine, biology and psychology in Tübingen, Freiburg and Heidelberg. Today, he is ...
The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics want to fetch the Sun's fire to Earth. A future fusion power plant is to produce energy by fusing nuclei of the two heavy hydrogen ...
Former Presidents of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) ...
The International Relations Unit in the Administrative Headquarters is responsible for bilateral collaboration with EU partners. These networks are of outstanding importance in terms of global ...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology criticise how the decision to reject the Anthropocene as a geological epoch was reached and call for an ...
Sima de los Huesos, the “bone pit”, is a cave site in Northern Spain that has yielded the world’s largest assembly of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils, consisting of at least 28 skeletons, which ...