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 ...

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

Earlier analyses of human–machine interaction mostly showed negative synergy effects. A review of 74 studies suggested that human–AI teams perform less well than the better of the two working alone.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...