In addition to brain imaging, laboratory analysis of cerebrospinal fluid is important for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, proteomic analysis of this fluid has revealed a set ...

A new study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of the mind-altering beverage kava facilitated the emergence of complex ...

When scientific insight leads to innovation – and ultimately to the founding of a company: this year’s Max Planck Start-up Award of the Stifterverband honours the work of Ovo Labs. Founded in 2025 as ...

Meshcapade, the Max Planck startup based in Tübingen’s Cyber Valley, is being acquired by Epic Games – a U.S. game developer and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development technology. Alongside the ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus slowing global ocean circulation as a team lead by the Max Planck Institute ...

Research highlights 2025: the year 2025 saw Max Planck scientists publishing exceptional research across disciplines. We have selected twelve highlights to share.

Studying the complete spectrum of the General Theory of Relativity and beyond: from the vast dimensions of the universe down to the incredibly tiny dimensions of strings - in Potsdam-Golm.

Forschende haben in Kläranlagen weltweit neue bakterielle Partnerschaften entdeckt, die eine überraschende Rolle für das ...

Schmelzende Eisschilde der Antarktis verstärkten zwischen Eiszeit und Warmzeit vorübergehend die Schichtung des ...