MPR 3 /2009

It was not merely greed on the part of mortgage banks that caused the fiasco.

Astronomers can now observe the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the infrared.

The Sunrise solar observatory successfully completed its first balloon flight.

Personal Portrait: Andrey Rybalchenko

New findings on the beach mouse, the cichlid, the great tit and other species were presented at the Max Planck Symposium on the Darwin Year 2009.

Hydrogen could make driving a car cleaner – but there are currently no suitable storage materials for the gas. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Metals Research, the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (coal research) and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are investigating the candidates for a hydrogen tank.

Researchers embarked on board a research vessel to investigate the gas emissions of phytoplankton.

Ethnologists are studying wedding rituals and family traditions in Kyrgyzstan.