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

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

Ancient pathogen genomes from old bones: a team of scientists from Germany and Argentina have reconstructed two genomes of ...

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

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 ...

In the U.S., the monthly payments increase the longer one works—researchers have now examined whether delaying retirement is ...

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 ...

New treatment approaches: Their work opens up new possibilities for treatments that specifically target the neural environment of tumors. Prize details: The prize, worth €60,000, will be awarded on ...

The Volkswagen Foundation has granted funding to the pioneering project, “From Legacy to Leadership” of the Max Planck ...

Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass eine von Neandertalern vererbte Genvariante die Funktion eines Schlüsselenzyms für die ...