Bonobos refuse to participate when faced with unequal rewards, reinforcing the highly contentious debate about inequity ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

Tiny brain injuries: Undetected lesions in the brain are a common cause of dementia and can be detected by MRI. Consequences in everyday life: The brains of those affected often process information ...

Malta reached earlier than previously thought: Researchers have found evidence that hunter-gatherers arrived on the island by boat as early as 8,500 years ago – around 1,000 years before the first ...

The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics is an internationally leading research institution in the fields of structural biology, biophysics and cell biology located at the center of the Frankfurt ...

Digital media are increasingly shaping the political landscape worldwide. A new replication study takes a closer look at earlier research on the influence of digital media on democracy and confirms ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Princeton University questions a long-standing assumption in evolutionary game theory. Traditionally, models assume that ...

Our Institute is a research facility established by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The Department of Social Law is devoted to basic research in the field of foreign and ...

The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, hindering the dispersal of animals between Africa and Eurasia, and is at least eleven million years old. How did ...

Microbial communities consist of groups of microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and other microscopic life forms, that coexist in specific environments. Although invisible to the naked eye, these ...