Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at…
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The Max Planck Institute is a network of over 80 independent research institutions in Germany and abroad, renowned for pioneering work across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines—from physics and astronomy to biology, social sciences, and humanities. Founded in 1948 and named after physicist Max Planck, the institutes are part of the Max Planck Society and are internationally recognized for pushing the boundaries of fundamental science. Each institute focuses on specific areas of research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation that frequently leads to groundbreaking discoveries and influential scientific publications.
The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie…
Discovering ways to control the topological aspects of quantum materials is an important research frontier…
Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian…
The left and right halves of our brains develop differently, as each hemisphere ‘specializes’ in…
The scientific performance demonstrated in the first weeks of operations of the eROSITA X-ray telescope…
Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas…
Food for young twin stars: Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary…
New, state-of-the-art methods provide detailed insights into the timing and causes of ‘megafauna’ extinctions in…
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young…
Neuroscientists provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as…
Second fastest spinning radio pulsar known is a gamma-ray pulsar, too. Multi-messenger observations look closely…
Scientists develop solution processable ferroelectric nylons. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)…
In the future, designers of micromachines can utilize a new effect. A team led by…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University…
Sponges belong to our earliest ancestors. However, fossils, molecules, and genes disagree on the rise…
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated…
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex.…