Early-life stressors such as childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect increase the likelihood of developing mental illness.

Rice and Max Planck Partnership” (Q-RaMP) between Rice University and the Max Planck Society is to promote the identification ...

Questions and answers on aridity and droughts in Germany. Evaporation has increased as a result of climate change, while ...

With the successful completion of a record-breaking financing round totaling 411 million euros, Proxima Fusion has reached a ...

Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years – shedding light on prehistoric human activity even where bones, ...

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is expanding its collaboration with India through the launch of ...

A new ancient DNA study provides evidence that political power among Scythian elites may have been inherited through family lineages that extended across multiple burial sites. By combining ...

Eight Max Planck scientists have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in its latest funding cycle, each receiving up to €2.5 million for a period of five years to ...

Questions and answers about the El Niño and La Niña climate phenomena. Among other things, the FAQs focus on whether El Niño will be particularly strong in 2026 and what the consequences might be.

Sara Wickström has been awarded the €1 million Körber European Science Prize for discovering a mechanism by which cells sense the physical world around them. Her research showed how cells can “feel” ...

Astronomer Sherry Suyu from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics on comet-hunter Caroline Herschel, the first salaried female astronomer She has a comet named after her – comet 35P / ...

Florencia Campetella, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on Maria Sibylla Merian - 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Frankfurt ...