The MPG offers excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of science. The Max Planck Society has initiated a number ...

They found evidence that a giant elliptical galaxy may form through the rapid collapse of this infant galaxy cluster.

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

Researchers decipher how elephant trunk hairs enable exceptional tactile senses through material intelligence.

In Tana River, eastern Kenya, Mercy Akinyi is investigating the transmission of diseases between humans, livestock, and ...

Modern Africa is young, diverse and a research powerhouse. In this interview, Tobias Bonhoeffer and Michaela Hergersberg ...

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology focuses on matters regarding the origins of humankind. The Institute’s researchers study widely-differing aspects of human evolution. They ...

Geoffrey Andama was a mentee in the first round of the ARTEMIS program in 2023. Since September 2025, he has headed the Max ...

Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche analyze the most energetic particle that has ever hit Earth and its possible origin in ...

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck ...

As part of the Bridging Minds programme, Giacomo Costalunga, Mahalakshmi (Meera) Ramadas and Carlos Gómez-Guzmán from the Max ...

Augusta Ada Byron is born 10th December 1815, as the daughter of Anne Isabella Noel-Byron (known as Annabella) and famous English poet Lord Byron. Shortly after her birth, her parents' marriage is ...