Fourteen newly founded start-ups of the Max Planck Society got off the ground in 2025. We present seven of them in detail.

A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material ...

A collaboration between Stuart Parkin's group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale) and ...

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Why do some people doubt themselves more over time while others gain confidence? There are two brain mechanisms behind ...