This year’s Annual Meeting of the Max Planck Society will be held on 5 and 6 June 2013 in Potsdam. Around 600 guests are expected to attend representing science, politics and industry, among them several of the Max Planck Society’s Nobel laureates. The new Federal Minister of Education and Research, Johanna Wanka, will address the Plenary Assembly in the Nikolaisaal for the first time. [more]

Burkhard Hess is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. An interview with him about life in Luxembourg, the fascination of establishing a new institute and the main focal points of his research. [more]

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law was formally inaugurated with an opening ceremony on 8 May. It is the first Max Planck institute in the field of law located outside Germany and represents an important addition to the Society’s research portfolio in the field of jurisprudence. [more]

Disney presents the lives of chimpanzees in the wild on the big screen – with the help of primatology researchers from Leipzig. Tobias Deschner reports on the experience of working with the camera team and the animal protagonists. [more]

Lisa Kaltenegger (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on the newly discovered, potentially habitable planets Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f - the best candidates for habitable, earth-like planets we know.