AI models are becoming increasingly adept at identifying and exploiting security vulnerabilities in IT systems. In July 2026, models from OpenAI, including GPT‑5.6 Sol, even began acting autonomously ...

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 ...

Entering the postdoc phase requires distinguishing yourself through excellent research, impactful publications, and affiliations with leading institutes in your field. At the institute, you will ...

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 ...

After the discoveries he made with his telescope, Galileo Galilei embarked on an increasingly urgent quest for proof of the Copernican worldview, which placed the Sun rather than the Earth at 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 ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...

Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills. This has been shown in a new study ...

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 ...

"Together with the simultaneous recording of responses from peripheral nerves, the brainstem and the cortex, our multi-channel spinal cord electrophysiology method provides the missing building block ...

The closest supermassive black hole to the Earth lies 26,000 light-years away at the centre of the Milky Way. This gravitational trap, which has a mass four million times that of our Sun, is ...

The evolutionary history of our own species can be traced back to fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) dated to about 300,000 years ago. Last year's analysis of these fossils by researchers from the ...