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 ...

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch (KWIH) and the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie, DFA) in Munich acquired thousands of ...

“My third observation relates to the nature of the Milky Way (...) No matter which part of it one targets with the telescope, one finds a huge number of stars, several of which are quite large and ...

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

An Andean condor and a trumpeter swan both weigh about 11 kilograms. Yet the condor covers each kilometer of flight for about a fifth of the swan’s energy bill. The difference is the air: the condor ...

For some time now, many people in Saxony-Anhalt have been anxious about the future of their state, and many across the rest of the Republic share that concern. Since the election on 6 September 2026, ...

Materials science is facing major challenges: The steel industry alone contributes eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Each year, e-waste, equivalent to 350 mega cruise ships, is ...

© Ekaterina Moerova / MPIfR; Background: NASA, CXC, SSC, NOAO, DSS; 3D image of methanol: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Methanol#section=3D-Conformer In ...

Get to know Max Planck alumni and their inspiring journeys. They are shaping the future in leading research institutions, ...

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 ...

"I could just as easily have become a philologist or a historian. What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner ...