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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered in an elaborate patient study that the transport of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain increases in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) shortly before ...

Rodents such as beavers, nutrias (coypu), squirrels and rats have particularly strong, elongated front teeth that grow continuously over the course of their lives. Using state-of-the-art imaging ...

Sumatran orangutan mothers differ from one another in how they behave with and take care of their infants and how flexibly they adjust their mothering behaviors as their infants grow.