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Our Alumni and Their Stories

Get to know Max Planck alumni and their inspiring journeys. They are shaping the future in leading research institutions, ...
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Unsere Alumni und ihre Geschichten

Lernen Sie Max-Planck Alumni und ihre Geschichten kennen. Sie arbeiten in führenden Forschungseinrichtungen, innovativen ...
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Hirnforschung und NS-Verbrechen

Das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin-Buch (KWIH) und die Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie (DFA) in München beschafften sich Tausende von Gehirnpräparaten von Opfern des ...
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Congratulations to Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

New research field: Peter Hegemann (formerly of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) and Georg Nagel (formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics), together with Carl Deisseroth (Stanford ...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft gratuliert Peter Hegemann und Georg Nagel zum Nobelpreis für Medizin

Neues Forschungsgebiet: Peter Hegemann (ehemals Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie) und Georg Nagel (ehemals Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik) gelten zusammen mit Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University) ...
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Astronomers produce the first complete picture of (gas) planet formation in action

First image of its kind: Astronomers have directly imaged the “swirl” where a protoplanet interacts with the gas in the surrounding protoplanetary disk. Fine details as a challenge: Taking an image of ...
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Cash transfers to mothers with low income may slow biological aging in children

A four-year randomized controlled trial tested whether unconditional cash transfers to low-income mothers could alter biological indicators of aging in them and their children. In the Baby's First ...
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25 PhD Positions (m/f/d) | Max Planck School of Biomedical AI

25 PhD Positions (m/f/d) - Max Planck School of Biomedical AI. The Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence has opened the call for its first cohort of fully funded PhD positions at the ...
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Three supermassive black holes discovered in a single galaxy for the first time

Three Black Holes Discovered in a Galaxy: For the first time, researchers have discovered three supermassive black holes in a galaxy (J0148-4214), each of which is actively accreting matter from its ...
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Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative

A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.4 million years ago. An ...
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A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe

Galaxy of enduring brightness: An international team led by Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy studied a galaxy that has been shining exceptionally brightly in radio ...