Columbia University and Max Planck Society team up to advance fusion energy science. The new Max Planck Columbia Center will ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...

Poor visibility conditions affect millions of drivers around the world. Thousands of them die each year in a car accident. Excessive speed constitutes a major causal factor for these car accidents.

The Max Planck Alumni Kick-off at the Harnack Haus got underway with 230 guests and an innovative portal for global ...

The mission of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy is to design, build, and analyze security and privacy technologies from foundations through systems ...

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, ...

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest honour awarded in German research. The Leibniz Programme, established in 1985, aims to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists and ...

For a research organisation like the Max Planck Society, acting responsibly and in accordance with the rules is indispensable. It is essential that everyone – both in science and in the ...

Humans with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago. The genetic relationships between these early modern humans and ...

Inspired by an earlier study that found associations between Neandertal DNA and disease risk, Janet Kelso at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany says her team got ...

A single dose of one of the world’s most widely-prescribed drugs for the treatment of depression causes quantifiable changes in the entire brain in a matter of a few hours. Scientists at the Max ...

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Ageing-Associated Diseases (CECAD), the ...