Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and ...

The significant decline in genetic diversity in the Amazon Basin, following historical events such as European colonisation, deforestation and the extinction of megafauna such as the sloth – the main ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is well known as a fruit pest, especially in summer. It is widely used in research and has become one of the best established model organisms for the study of ...

Testosterone is the male hormone par excellence: it contributes to the male phenotype and influences sexual development and aggressive behavior, among other things. In the animal kingdom, we usually ...

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) brings together scientists from diverse backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) with the aim of investigating the history of ...

The human brain is probably the most complex “machine” in the universe. With over 80 billion neurons and about as many glial cells, over 100 trillion synaptic connections and hundreds of thousands of ...

In an article published in September 2024, the journal Nature criticized the fact that much of today’s AI research no longer takes place in university laboratories but instead happens behind the ...

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time PhD student to join the ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. The group, led by ...

We are pleased to invite applications to a 3.5-year University of Manchester doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the Social Statistics Department, ...

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. The ...

for a new research group focused on the societal implications of digitalization and technological change. The group will explore the broad socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change, ...

“This study highlights the significance of incorporating larger and more diverse simulation sets in the investigation of the supermassive black hole," explains Christian M. Fromm, member of the EHT ...