A cross-cultural study reveals how the consumption of wine and beer facilitated the evolution of human societies ...

A hundred years ago, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research began its work. From it emerged today’s Max Planck ...

New study shows that a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals impairs the function of a key enzyme involved in muscle ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have critically examined the basis for a frequently cited ...

An FAQ to anwer the most important questions about how to create a special tribunal for the Ukraine, the possible impacts on ...

Changing family structures: In Thailand, rapid demographic change has meant that people born just five to ten years later ...

A group of chacma baboons in the middle of a grooming session. On the left, the larger male has his fur cleaned by a smaller ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicists Ferenc Krausz (2023) and Serge Haroche (2012) returned from an emotional and impactful visit ...

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has demonstrated in a recent pilot study that virtual forest ...

Since the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has ...

With its new Transatlantic Program, the Max Planck Society aims to strengthen collaboration and partnerships between its institutes and leading U.S. institutions. At the same time, it seeks to counter ...