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 ...

A team from the Infrared/Submillimetre Group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has discovered a new star that comes closer to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at ...

'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 ...

The current call for applications for the Max Planck Postdoc Program runs from 1 September to 13 October 2026 (12 pm CEST). Open positions can be found on the application platform. Please check the ...

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 ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian ...

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) ...