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MPR 2 /2001
MPR 2 /2001
Viewpoint
Recently, man’s ancestral portrait gallery has had a few bones added to it – with the digging up of the bones of the six million-year-old "Millennium Man" by researchers in Africa.
Physics & Astronomy
The cosmologist Simon D.M. White from the MPI for Astrophysics is one of the twelve prize-winners from five different disciplines.
Biology & Medicine
A highly sensitive method for detecting prion diseases is to be developed into a routinely usable diagnostic test.
The "Depression 2000 Study" carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich shows deficits in general practice.
Material & Technology
Over recent years, fuel cells have become a central focus of interest – to such an extent that they are even appearing in reports on the news.
High-temperature fuel cells operate at temperatures of up to 1,000° C. This type of technology is particularly suitable for small stationary power stations, which supply blocks of houses, for example, with electrical power and warm water.
"Around 98 percent of the stuff put out by computers is garbage which nobody reads".
Culture & Society
The life expectancy has increased from 45 to almost 80 – now "ordering of the years that have been won" is the next item.
The research group concerned with the "Advancement of Female Scientists" within the Max Planck Society’s Scientific Council has been in existence for approximately ten years.
Without a doubt, the President of the Max Planck Society gets paid for considering as many of its researchers as possible, if not the whole lot of them, to be laudable.
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