The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch (KWIH) and the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie, DFA) in Munich acquired thousands of ...

To find the cause of the "dessert stomach", the researchers investigated the reaction of mice to sugar and found that completely satiated mice still ate desserts. Investigations of the brain showed ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was the world’s first female professor of mathematics. She taught at Stockholm University, where she was awarded a Professorial Chair. Born in Russia, she entered into a ...

More than 280,000 people in Germany have multiple sclerosis (MS) and approximately 15,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This makes MS the most common inflammatory disease of the central nervous ...

"Normally, you would need to carry out ten or twenty years of research in precision physics to improve a fundamental value by a single order of magnitude", says Klaus Blaum, Director at the Max Planck ...

Mit Hubert Aiwanger verliert der Freistaat Bayern einen engagierten Politiker und die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft einen wichtigen und kooperativen Ansprechpartner. Seine konkrete Unterstützung als ...

A water droplet never freezes at zero degrees Celsius. Water forms ice only at the temperature which is commonly known as freezing point, if it is in contact with large surfaces with many and large ...

They are considered next-generation batteries: solid-state batteries promise higher storage capacity, even greater safety, and, in theory, a longer service life. This could help electric vehicles ...

The scientists initially focused on the DNA in the mitochondria which is small and particularly easy to retrieve. In 2008, they published the first fully decoded mitochondrial genome of a Neandertal.

A single dose of one of the world’s most widely-prescribed drugs for the treatment of depression causes quantifiable changes in the entire brain in a matter of a few hours. Scientists at the Max ...

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius experienced one of its most significant eruptions, burying the Roman city of Pompeii and its inhabitants under a thick layer of small stones and ash known as lapilli. Many of ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...