As part of the POMORROW – Potatoes for Tomorrow project, the entire potato collection of the German gene bank is being ...

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in ...

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration presents the loudest gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes, confirming ...

Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early ...

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots ...

The spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics wins The German Entrepreneur Award in the StartUp category with ...

Blue-throated macaws learn new behaviors by observing interactions of their conspecifics. When they observed how other ...

Herpesvirus infection prevented: They generated a highly potent nanobody that interferes with the function of this complex and neutralizes HSV-1 at an early stage of infection. New insights into ...

In 2025, the Max Planck Society received 17 Starting Grants from the ERC. This puts the MPG at the top of the European ranking.

Located billions of light-years away, the blazar PKS 1424+240 had long baffled astronomers. It stood out as the brightest known neutrino-emitting blazar in the sky — as identified by the IceCube ...

An international team of researchers from Germany, Georgia, Armenia, and Norway has analyzed ancient DNA from 230 individuals across 50 archaeological sites from Georgia and Armenia. Within the ...