For many people today, botanical knowledge doesn’t go much beyond daisies, buttercups, and dandelions. But an app is changing ...

Back in the lab, the team showed how these towers could attach to fruit flies, supporting a long-standing idea: towering ...

Six lightweight rigid plates made from glass fiber serve as the exoskeleton of each HEXEL module. The inner joints of the hexagons are driven by hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic ...

The diversity of facial shapes in birds and mammals is due to variations in non-coding DNA sequences Same genes, different ...

This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST ...

Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the ...

At the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, we bridge the gap between basic research and translational, preclinical approaches. Here, researchers from the fields of biology, chemistry, ...

The microsatellite “Raven” will further advance global understanding of wildlife and Earth’s changing environments from space ...

Gerd Gigerenzer and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the affiliated Harding Center for Risk Literacy are a driving force behind the research being carried out on our ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...