Researchers in Heidelberg developed precision mechanisms for the Roman Space Telescope to make planets visible next to their ...

When a young golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos) finally leaves its parents’ territory, it leaves behind the only safety net it ...

Nine early-career researchers from the Max Planck Society have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), receiving up to €1.5 million each to fund their ...

On a high Norwegian plateau in late May, patches of bare ground begin to appear through the snow, and with them arrive some of Europe's most approachable birds. Eurasian Dotterels breed on exposed ...

A team from the Infrared/Submillimetre Group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has discovered a new star that comes closer to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at ...

The sophisticated vocal communication systems of birds and mammals are characterized by a high degree of plasticity in which signals are individually adjusted in response to changes in the environment ...

The current call for applications for the Max Planck Postdoc Program runs from 1 September to 13 October 2026 (12 pm CEST). Open positions can be found on the application platform. Please check the ...

Birds, reptiles and mammals are all amniotes, a clade of tetrapod vertebrates, whose eggs could survive outside water, hence enabling land colonization. Amniotes appeared ~320 million years ago, and ...

A pillar of modern cosmology is the existence of dark matter, which constitutes about 85% of all matter in the Universe. Under the influence of gravity, dark matter forms an intricate cosmic web ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

How can different ecologically specialised populations of the same species—so-called ecotypes—coexist within the same habitat and even evolve into distinct species over time? This fundamental question ...

Professor Troncoso, what are the most significant differences between the new Chat Control proposal and previous versions? Are there any clear improvements? It's very encouraging that the new proposal ...