Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are extremely bright centers of galaxies. The “engines” driving their enormous energy output are supermassive black holes. Matter falling onto such black holes (“accretion ...

The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics is a leading international research institute that uses and develops biophysical, biochemical and computational methods to investigate the structure, dynamics ...

Ana J. García-Sáez is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

Jenny Tung, born 1982 in Seaford, Delaware, United States, studied Evolutionary Biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. She received her Ph.D. at Duke University investigating the ...

Frauke Gräter is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer ...

The institutes differ greatly in their knowledge objectives and in their research methods. These range from interpretative, comparative procedures in law, history and the arts, to qualitative and ...

Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with Neandertals but left no present-day descendants After modern humans left Africa, they met ...

The study of ancient DNA has greatly advanced our knowledge of human evolution, including the discovery of gene flow from Neandertals into the common ancestors of modern humans. Neandertals and modern ...

New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope no longer rule out the presence of an atmosphere around the Earth-sized rocky planet. However, a geologically active planet also explains the data.

There is no question that the Sun is a temperamental star, as alone this year’s unusually strong solar storms prove. Some of them led to remarkable auroras even at low latitudes. But can our star ...

In a European comparison, the Max Planck Society ranks second, alongside the Helmholtz Association. The French CNRS leads the ranking with 20 grants. Israeli institutions follow in third and fourth ...

The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at its sites in Constance and Radolfzell offers an international, interdisciplinary, and cooperative environment that opens up unique research opportunities ...