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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Knowing how shrews loose brain volume over winter is the first step to understanding how they reverse this loss and regrow healthy brains in summer ...

Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2025, endowed with 1.5 million euros. The expert in international ...

There is no such thing as "the" Max Planck Institute. In fact, the Max Planck Society operates a number of research institutions in Germany as well as abroad. These Max Planck Institutes are ...

The current call for proposals is open from September 9 th 2025 to October 14 th 2025. The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.; MPG) is a world-leading, ...