Prima facie, the numbers are clear: Mothers and fathers generally live longer than the childless. The effect is particularly pronounced for adoptive parents: Adopting a child adds three years to the ...

The Max Planck Society is expanding its collaboration with China: On April 13, two new Max Planck Centers were officially ...

An international research team led by Silke Britzen of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has discovered the first ...

Steel production is currently the biggest single cause of global warming, responsible for about seven percent of global CO 2 emissions. To cut these emissions, scientists and industry are intensively ...

Proposal for embedded ethics, based on dynamic dialogue, to facilitate ethically responsible research with stem-cell-based embryo models.

The individual steps of nest-building are instinctive, but only through practice do the fish become true masters.

"Normally, you would need to carry out ten or twenty years of research in precision physics to improve a fundamental value by a single order of magnitude", says Klaus Blaum, Director at the Max Planck ...

Volatile brood pheromone: The larvae of the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi produce a specific volatile compound ...

Research shows that paying attention to alcohol ads heightens cravings and leads to increased consumption, highlighting the ...

Computer systems permeate our daily life. In addition to conventional desktop computing and Internet applications, sophisticated software systems can be found in almost all technical devices, from ...

The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung at Mülheim an der Ruhr is more than one hundred years old, making it one of the Max Planck Society's oldest institutes. Time and again, the Institute has ...

Computer systems permeate our daily life. In addition to conventional desktop computing and Internet applications, sophisticated software systems can be found in almost all technical devices, from ...