From 24 to 26 June 2025, the Max Planck Society is hosting its annual meeting in Magdeburg, bringing together around 500 guests, including both internal members and external participants. The ...

Major drivers of high-quality science, such as Germany’s Max Planck Society and CNRS in France, drop several places as China’s universities rise. Western research institutions continue to ...

The Max Planck Symposium is an intensive, two-day career conference serving as a platform to connect international Max Planck Alumni and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and ...

More precise model calculations for past summers To test the quality of the resulting prediction, they used a so-called hindcast experiment: a prediction for a period that already lies in the past.

The Harnack Medal has been awarded only 36 times since 1924, including 10 times by the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft (1924-1936) and 26 times by the Max Planck Society (1953-2025). It was awarded for ...

Talent, creativity and passion - that's what the Max Planck Society relies on. It promotes all employees equally. Because research needs diversity. This is also formulated in the Code of Conduct, the ...

The Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion, a spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, has raised €130 million in capital. The company plans to use the funds to finance the development ...

Support for Dual Career CouplesTo attract the finest researchers to its location, it is essential not only to offer an exceptional scientific milieu but also to ensure that all other framework ...

“These dimensions represent various properties of objects, ranging from purely visual aspects, like ‘round’ or ‘white’, to more semantic properties, like ‘animal-related’ or ‘fire-related’, with many ...

Our brain is adept at synchronizing with rhythmic sounds, whether it's the beat of a song or the steady patter of rain. This ability helps us recognize and process sounds more effectively.

Successfully passing false-belief tasks is argued to reflect the emergence of representations of others’ mental states. To find out more about this critical period where social cognition evolves, ...