On open beaches, shingle riverbeds and bare volcanic plateaus, banded dotterels – or double-banded plovers, as they are called in Australia – are a familiar and much-loved sight across New Zealand, ...

New research field: Peter Hegemann (formerly of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) and Georg Nagel (formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics), together with Carl Deisseroth (Stanford ...

“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 ...

Debate over the Anthropocene: In 2024, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) rejected the proposal to recognise the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch, despite decades of research ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...

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

Solid-state batteries could store electricity more efficiently and safely in the future than today's batteries with liquid electrolytes. Space charges that form in solid-state batteries have so far ...

Peter Hans Hofschneider, for whom the award is named, was born in Stuttgart on February 14, 1929. He studied medicine, biology and psychology in Tübingen, Freiburg and Heidelberg. Today, he is ...

Max Planck Alumni is the worldwide network connecting current and former members of the Max Planck Society. It brings together people from different scientific disciplines, professional backgrounds ...

Birds, reptiles and mammals are all amniotes, a clade of tetrapod vertebrates, whose eggs could survive outside water, hence enabling land colonization. Amniotes appeared ~320 million years ago, and ...

They are considered next-generation batteries: solid-state batteries promise higher storage capacity, even greater safety, and, in theory, a longer service life. This could help electric vehicles ...