There are three morphs in ruffs that differ in their appearance and mating behavior. Males of the aggressive Independents ...

Many of the technologies we rely on in everyday life today, such as machine learning and natural language processing, are ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Heidelberg University have observed largely intact HIV-1 capsids as ...

Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Gilles Laurent, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and ...

The ability of Drosophila busckii to thrive in a toxic food niche is an important advantage that allows it to occupy habitats ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...

In 1827, the Russian merchant Fyodor Shergin tried to dig a well in the backyard of his house in Yakutsk, Siberia. But instead of liquid water, all he found was frozen ground. Shergin gave up at a ...

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) in Mülheim an der Ruhr studies fundamental chemical processes for energy storage in chemical molecules. The Department of “Inorganic ...

The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is one of the most internationally renowned research institutes. More than 400 employees in 5 scientific departments ...

The partnership will set a new course for tracking animal movements using satellite-based technology. Icarus 2.0 will be available globally and allow for comprehensive research into biodiversity loss, ...

The International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM) of the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg (MPI-IE) is looking for talented and motivated students with ...

Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)— a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times the mass of the Sun— since the early 1990s. Sgr A* regularly exhibits flares that can ...