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Second Call for Dioscuri Centres

December 06, 2018

The second call for the establishment of up to four centres of scientific excellence in Poland is now open

Four new sources of gravitational waves

December 04, 2018

LIGO and Virgo Observatories also present their first catalogue

Advent Calendar 2018

Each day until December 24, we will open a door of our online science advent calender for you to dazzle you with images from science.

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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 the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

December 10, 2018 The public understanding of migration more

MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

December 07, 2018 Neural networks let microscopists see more more

MPI of Biochemistry, et al.

December 07, 2018 Leibniz Prizes 2019 for three female Max Planck scientists more

MPI for Evolutionary Biology

December 06, 2018 Double the stress slows down evolution more

MPI for Infection Biology

December 06, 2018 Tuberculosis in the blood more

MPI of Neurobiology

December 06, 2018 Three nerve cells are sufficient to steer a fly more