A new study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of the mind-altering beverage kava facilitated the emergence of complex ...

When scientific insight leads to innovation – and ultimately to the founding of a company: this year’s Max Planck Start-up ...

Meshcapade, the Max Planck startup based in Tübingen’s Cyber Valley, is being acquired by Epic Games – a U.S. game developer and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development technology. Alongside the ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, reveals the secret to the gentle ...

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus slowing global ocean circulation as a team lead by the Max Planck Institute ...

Research highlights 2025: the year 2025 saw Max Planck scientists publishing exceptional research across disciplines. We have selected twelve highlights to share.

Studying the complete spectrum of the General Theory of Relativity and beyond: from the vast dimensions of the universe down to the incredibly tiny dimensions of strings - in Potsdam-Golm.

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

Forschende haben in Kläranlagen weltweit neue bakterielle Partnerschaften entdeckt, die eine überraschende Rolle für das ...

Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche analyze the most energetic particle that has ever hit Earth and its possible origin in ...