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The friendly extortioner takes it all

February 15, 2019

People who cunningly use cooperation and egoism are unbeatable

The butterfly woman

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist.

Are fish aware of themselves?

February 07, 2019

Cleaner wrasse seem to recognize themselves in the mirror.

Lise Meitner Excellence Program

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Successful research - also with a baby

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Flight and trauma

Video March 15, 2018

Traumatic experiences arising from flight from war zones can lead to distressing symptoms, which impair everyday life.

The school for T Cells

Video August 17, 2017

Immunobiology

The lamprey has no thymus gland. Max Planck scientist Thomas Böhm wants to know how it copes with bacteria and viruses.

Cryptography

Video May 04, 2017

Computer Science Quantum Physics

In principle, almost any encryption key can be broken - all you need is the right computing power. The situation is different, however, with quantum cryptography. Gerd Leuchs is researching this encryption technology of the future.

Climate: how the earth breathes

Video February 06, 2017

Climate Earth Sciences

Researchers understand Earth’s climate system very accurately by now. For a long time, however, an important piece of the puzzle remained very elusive - the role played by vegetation and soils.

From the Institutes

MPI for Evolutionary Biology

February 15, 2019 The friendly extortioner takes it all more

MPI for Ornithology

February 13, 2019 A deeper look inside the sleeping bird brain more

MPI for Developmental Biology, et al.

February 12, 2019 "Where there's life, there's evolution!" more

MPI for Ornithology (Radolfzell)

February 07, 2019 Are fish aware of themselves? more

MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

February 07, 2019 Slow down of gene transcription more

MPI for Biogeochemistry

February 07, 2019 Wind energy supplies almost three quarters of expected electrical energy more