Researchers in Heidelberg developed precision mechanisms for the Roman Space Telescope to make planets visible next to their ...

When a young golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos) finally leaves its parents’ territory, it leaves behind the only safety net it ...

Nine early-career researchers from the Max Planck Society have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), receiving up to €1.5 million each to fund their ...

A team from the Infrared/Submillimetre Group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has discovered a new star that comes closer to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at ...

“Until now, we knew that suppressed anger has the greatest effect on the intensification of pain experiences in patients with chronic pain. That’s why we wanted to investigate whether the experience ...

The current call for applications for the Max Planck Postdoc Program runs from 1 September to 13 October 2026 (12 pm CEST). Open positions can be found on the application platform. Please check the ...

A mysterious gravitational wave signal points to two merging black holes, each too massive to be the remnants of a star. Researchers have an idea more ...

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However, an international team led by André Strauss of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has discovered this kind of practice is much older than previously ...

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 ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, reveals the secret to the gentle ...

Plants are in a constant competition with their neighbors for limited resources such as light, nutrients and water. Only the fittest survive and reproduce. To defend their territory against invading ...