The seven million year old Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered in 2001 in Chad and announced in 2002 as a habitual bipedal hominin species based on an adult distorted cranium. Thus, any ...

Suropriya Saha from the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, about the theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Physics Nobel Prize in 1963 Maria ...

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 ...

Advancing future technologies and developing the foundations for a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that can learn from people, interact with them seamlessly, and assist them – this ...

A new study combines palaeoanthropology and diving physiology to address a fundamental question in human evolution: why did humans evolve their exceptional aerobic endurance? Did our ancestors begin ...

The number of people living in liberal democracies is declining. The democracies that remain, meanwhile, are fragile, not least because many people view politics and political parties with scepticism.

Max Planck – Asia Center for unraveling the nexus of AIR pollution, extreme weather, and monsoon in a warming climate: pathways to global solutions ...

Medical therapies are constantly evolving. As part of our focus on the “Future of Medicine” Science Year, we are presenting new approaches in three areas. We describe how a team in Göttingen is ...

We see ourselves as an interface between excellent research and entrepreneurial application. As pioneers, we accompany scientists on their journey from idea to marketable product – providing support, ...

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Der Begriff Anthropozän wurde im Jahr 2000 geprägt und beschreibt den Menschen als maßgeblichen Treiber von Veränderungen im Erdsystem. Seitdem hat das Konzept in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft, Kultur ...