Columbia University and Max Planck Society team up to advance fusion energy science. The new Max Planck Columbia Center will ...

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 ...

Poor visibility conditions affect millions of drivers around the world. Thousands of them die each year in a car accident. Excessive speed constitutes a major causal factor for these car accidents.

The Max Planck Alumni Kick-off at the Harnack Haus got underway with 230 guests and an innovative portal for global networking.

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, ...

Materials science is facing major challenges: The steel industry alone contributes eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Each year, e-waste, equivalent to 350 mega cruise ships, is ...

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest honour awarded in German research. The Leibniz Programme, established in 1985, aims to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists and ...

For a research organisation like the Max Planck Society, acting responsibly and in accordance with the rules is indispensable. It is essential that everyone – both in science and in the ...

Unlike software, hardware cannot be updated retroactively, and hidden tampering in complex electronic chips is very difficult to detect. A team at the Max Planck ...

As the name suggests, plasma physics concerns the physical properties of plasmas. With increasing temperature, all materials are transformed successively from the solid, to liquid and then gaseous ...

The new Max Planck Columbia Center will have a total budget of $13.3 million over its five-year term more ...