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 ...

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 ...

The sophisticated vocal communication systems of birds and mammals are characterized by a high degree of plasticity in which signals are individually adjusted in response to changes in the environment ...

'The free, AI-powered app Flora Incognita identifies plants from photos uploaded by users. It can currently recognize 32,000 plant species with high accuracy. The app aims to bring the diversity of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The German armed forces’ invasion of Poland started the Second World War in September 1939. But even before that, research conducted in accordance with the Nazi state’s military strategy and ...

Professor Troncoso, what are the most significant differences between the new Chat Control proposal and previous versions? Are there any clear improvements? It's very encouraging that the new proposal ...

Diagnostic errors are among the most serious problems in everyday medical practice. AI systems—especially large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-4, Gemini, or Claude 3—offer new ways to efficiently ...

Researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO), the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, and the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human activity. This interdisciplinary study ...