A four-year randomized controlled trial tested whether unconditional cash transfers to low-income mothers could alter biological indicators of aging in them and their children. In the Baby's First ...

Who isn’t familiar with the colorful coral reefs from movies like “Finding Nemo” or “The Little Mermaid”? Unfortunately, the reality is often quite different, as these vital ecosystems are under ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...

Social media shapes public debate, sways elections, and frames how we see the world. While some demand tighter regulation, others push for less. An interdisciplinary team is investigating how the EU ...

Born 1959 in Jonstorp, Sweden. Study of biology at Lund University, BSc in Biology (1982), PhD in Ecology (1988), Professor for Chemical Ecology at Lund University (2000), Professor and Head of ...

The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.; MPG) is a world-leading, independent, non-profit research organization to promote cutting-edge basic research.

Can we fuel gas turbines with hydrogen instead of fossil fuels and cut 15 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions? Gas turbines generate around 22 percent of the world's electricity.

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 ...

Plants are in a constant competition with their neighbors for limited resources such as light, nutrients and water. Only the fittest survive and reproduce. To defend their territory against invading ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has discovered complex organic molecules – ...

A technology which works on a large scale can cause unexpected problems on a small one. And these can be of a fundamental nature. This is because different laws prevail in the micro- and the ...

The scientists initially focused on the DNA in the mitochondria which is small and particularly easy to retrieve. In 2008, they published the first fully decoded mitochondrial genome of a Neandertal.