Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over ...

The new imaging method opens the door to precision diagnostics for cancers of the head and neck. The researchers are ...

Bettina Hünteler and colleagues conclude “that a person's financial well-being depends on the interaction of several family ...

Roughly one third of patients with depressive symptoms have elevated levels of inflammation. Inflammation is however often ...

Why does the rooster crow and the hen does not? This question prompted the scientist Arnold Adolph Berthold to castrate a ...

Analysis of nitrogen isotopes by a team lead by the max Planck Institute for Chemistry provides evidence of the earliest ...

Advancing science together: CAS President Jianguo Hou (left) and MPG President Patrick Cramer (right) used the anniversary ...

The term alexithymia is an amalgam of the Greek prefix a-(without) and the words lexis (reading) and thymos (emotion). It refers to the inability of a person to recognize and describe their own ...

With a new agri-photovoltaic system, the Max Planck Campus is saving 600 tons of CO 2 and promoting biodiversity An innovative agrivoltaic system is currently at the heart of these efforts, which is ...

Recent observations in brown algae from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and the University of Dundee reveal the same hourglass pattern during embryogenesis as animals and ...

New study reveals surprising female influence on song learning in zebra finches As with many bird species, only male zebra finches are able to learn the species-typical song from a tutor, usually the ...