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 ...

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in ...

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration presents the loudest gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes, confirming ...

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 spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics wins The German Entrepreneur Award in the StartUp category with ...

Blue-throated macaws learn new behaviors by observing interactions of their conspecifics. When they observed how other ...

In the European comparison, the Max Planck Society is right at the top: with 17 grants, it shares first place with the French CNRS. They are followed by the University of Oxford (12 grants), the ...