A behavioral experiment shows that a completely uncooperative behavioral strategy undermines climate protection efforts even ...

Fourteen newly founded start-ups of the Max Planck Society got off the ground in 2025. We present seven of them in detail.

Vocal coordination in duels: Male nightingales rapidly adjust both the pitch and note length of their whistle songs during ...

In house mice, the pay-off of mating with multiple males depends especially on the quality of food available to mothers ...

If an event is more likely to occur at a certain point in time, the brain tracks the time until it occurs more precisely ...

Scientists identify new species of denitrifying endosymbionts in wastewater, highlighting their global prevalence – with an ...

Everybody’s been there: You’re sitting at your desk, staring out the window, your thoughts wandering. Instead of getting on with what you’re supposed to be doing, you start mentally planning your next ...

First study of wild animals shows mercury and certain PFAS compounds alter how birds convert food into cellular energy, ...

The results presented here stem from over three decades of continuous archaeological and geological research conducted in the framework of the Moroccan-French Program “Préhistoire de Casablanca”. This ...

Scientists from the Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes and the Research Group for Neuronal Convergence analysed comparable data from 61 studies carried out in different laboratories and ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...