Research for Your Ears

The Max Planck Lawcast showcases the academic research being conducted across the various Institutes within the Max Planck Law network. Christopher Murphy, the Lawcast host, sits down with researchers to explore the breakthroughs in their work

A science podcast about the patterns driving human judgment and decision making. In each episode,  Ana Sofia Morais sits down with a researcher to explore how people make decisions, how they handle risk, and how our surroundings and the online world shape our behavior. New episodes are released every eight weeks.

On the podcast “Doing Time, Talking Crime,” researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law sit down to discuss their academic findings in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. The researchers talk about their projects, the difficulties they often encounter, and the scientific findings they have made. They take time to explain why the research conducted at the Max Planck Institute is so important for the society in which we live.

This podcast series is hosted for doctoral researchers by doctoral researchers. It wants to make the process of getting a doctorate more transparent and raise awareness about possible career opportunities for doctoral researchers inside and outside of science. They also focus on problems in academia by discussing topics of Open Science and research assessment.

How do you model a brain? Not all of it — just one piece. A synapse that strengthens with use. A neuron in the visual cortex that responds to edges. A cerebellum learning to fine-tune movement. A dopamine signal that encodes not reward itself, but the surprise of it. Code of the Mind is a podcast about the moments when neuroscientists and mathematicians found a shared language. Each episode takes one discovery or one thinker and follows the idea all the way through — where it came from, what it explained, and what it opened up.

What can a simple mask tell us about social equality? How does digitization change our lives and what researchers, or the public, know and understand? In the new "Science Social" podcast series, scholars from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science join host Stephanie Hood with a cup of coffee to take a close-up look at what exploring topics around science, society, and history can tell us about wider current issues.

In the video series "Pimp your brain!" scientists explain techniques they use in the labs and what simple but genius ideas are hiding behind complicated science terms.