Professor Akcigit, die deutsche Wiedervereinigung liegt nun mehr als 35 Jahre zurück. Warum besteht das wirtschaftliche Gefälle zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland noch immer? Die Wiedervereinigung ...
Astronomers have directly imaged the “swirl” where a protoplanet interacts with the gas in the surrounding protoplanetary disk. Taking an image of structures this small requires a powerful observatory ...
Orangutan infants spend their first eight years with their mothers, and throughout this time, they can draw on her knowledge. After that, however, orangutans are entirely on their own. To fare well as ...
A team from the Infrared/Submillimetre Group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has discovered a new star that comes closer to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at ...
Three Black Holes Discovered in a Galaxy: For the first time, researchers have discovered three supermassive black holes in a galaxy (J0148-4214), each of which is actively accreting matter from its ...
Researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO), the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, and the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) ...
A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.4 million years ago. An ...
Galaxy of enduring brightness: An international team led by Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy studied a galaxy that has been shining exceptionally brightly in radio ...
Using MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) PhD student ...
They are considered next-generation batteries: solid-state batteries promise higher storage capacity, even greater safety, and, in theory, a longer service life. This could help electric vehicles ...
Meshcapade is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and develops solutions for the creation and animation of digital humans. The start-up was founded in 2018 and ...