The Sun should be capable of eruptions that are a hundred times stronger than the strongest flare ever recorded. This is ...

Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with Neandertals but ...

Barley is one the world’s most important grain crops with 155 million tonnes produced worldwide every year, the majority ...

Bettina Lotsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, receives the Leibniz Prize 2025. She is honoured for her development of new materials. The Leibniz Prize, ...

The Consolidator Grantees of the Max Planck Society 2024 (from left to right): Marcel Böhme, Mario Flock, Manuel Gomez ...

Transmission electron microscopy is a powerful imaging technique used to study the structure and properties of materials at ...

It is often assumed that people who hold left-wing political beliefs have stronger prosocial traits and are more altruistic than those who support right-wing parties. This assumption is probably ...

The office aims to serve as a crucial hub for maintaining and expanding connections between the Max Planck Society and ...

We train the next generation of scientists to study complex biological processes that cannot be adequately understood within the limits of a single discipline. The challenging and innovative program ...

The Universe hosts extreme environments, from the coldest temperatures to the most energetic sources. Extreme objects such as supernova remnants, pulsars or active galactic nuclei produce charged ...