When scientific insight leads to innovation – and ultimately to the founding of a company: this year’s Max Planck Start-up ...

Research highlights 2025: the year 2025 saw Max Planck scientists publishing exceptional research across disciplines. We have selected twelve highlights to share.

Meshcapade, the Max Planck startup based in Tübingen’s Cyber Valley, is being acquired by Epic Games – a U.S. game developer and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development technology. Alongside the ...

They found evidence that a giant elliptical galaxy may form through the rapid collapse of this infant galaxy cluster.

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

In Tana River, eastern Kenya, Mercy Akinyi is investigating the transmission of diseases between humans, livestock, and ...

Researchers decipher how elephant trunk hairs enable exceptional tactile senses through material intelligence.

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus slowing global ocean circulation as a team lead by the Max Planck Institute ...

Modern Africa is young, diverse and a research powerhouse. In this interview, Tobias Bonhoeffer and Michaela Hergersberg ...

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck ...