The graphic shows that sex is only clearly binary in the sexual organs. In all other tissues, male and female traits strongly overlap, forming mosaic-like patterns – similar to body height, which ...

Awarded: Davor Solter, Max Planck Emeritus, is receives the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize together with Azim ...

When people delegated tasks to machine agents–whether voluntarily or in a forced manner–they were more likely to cheat ...

Childlessness is becoming an increasingly common issue as people are delaying to start a family and the couples do not have a ...

Potatoes for Tomorrow project, the entire potato collection of the German gene bank is being completely genotyped for the ...

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots in the images from the James Webb Space Telescope: black hole stars, which ...

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.

The current call for proposals is open from September 9 th 2025 to October 14 th 2025. There are two types of Max Planck Research Groups: Institute-specific and open-topic Groups. If Max Planck ...

Nur Sexualorgane trennen klar: In allen anderen Organen zeigen sich überlappende Muster männlicher und weiblicher ...

Ehrung: Davor Solter, Max-Planck-Emeritus, erhält 2026 zusammen mit Azim Surani den Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Preis für die „Entdeckung des Phänomens der genomischen Prägung“, wie die Paul ...

Hochgeschwindigkeitspumpen: Zellen nutzen Hochgeschwindigkeitspumpen, um Kalziumionen aus ihrem Inneren herauszupumpen. Ein ...

Die Delegation an KI kann zu Unehrlichkeit führen: Wenn Menschen Aufgaben an KI delegierten – sei es freiwillig oder ...