Columbia University and Max Planck Society team up to advance fusion energy science. The new Max Planck Columbia Center will ...

The Max Planck Alumni Kick-off at the Harnack Haus got underway with 230 guests and an innovative portal for global ...

Advancing future technologies and developing the foundations for a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that can learn from people, interact with them seamlessly, and assist them – this ...

Suropriya Saha from the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, about the theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Physics Nobel Prize in 1963 Maria ...

The gut microbiome may shape vaccine responses: Differences in people’s gut microbes before vaccination are linked to how strongly they developed fever after vaccination. Microbial flagellin is a key ...

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 ...

Canaries have been domesticated since the 15 th century and are the descendants of the wild canary that lives on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. Like their wild ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology criticise how the decision to reject the Anthropocene as a geological epoch was reached and call for an ...

Medical therapies are constantly evolving. As part of our focus on the “Future of Medicine” Science Year, we are presenting new approaches in three areas. We describe how a team in Göttingen is ...

Former Presidents of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) ...

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

The Executive Committee advises the President and prepares important decisions for the Society. The Executive Committee draws up the overall budget and prepares the annual accounts. Members of ...