Pavona is a new open-source silicon ecosystem hosted by GlobalPlatform that brings together a community of industry leaders ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has discovered complex organic molecules – ...

Proteins move our muscles, catalyse biochemical reactions as enzymes, and protect us against pathogens. To perform these tasks, typical proteins must first fold into a defined three-dimensional ...

Professor Gummadi, at what point does an AI system become an AI agent? Is ChatGPT already an AI agent, or does it require more than that? Let me try to answer this question first on a conceptual level ...

Previously unknown navigation mechanism: pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using iron-rich immune cells in their livers, a quantum effect. Navigation ex ...

Upwelling of phosphorus-rich deep water promotes an N-fixing symbiont of the Sargassum algae giving it a competitive advantage. Each year, vast mats of Sargassum spread across the tropical Atlantic, ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

The Mülheim-based Deep Tech start-up Minerva Carbon has secured around €1.8 million in funding through the EXIST program, an initiative by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

Batteries are becoming more and more powerful. A discovery by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg could now give them a significant energy boost. A team led by ...

With few exceptions, birth rates are falling worldwide. What does this mean? Put simply, the fertility rate describes the average number of children a woman is expected to have over the course of her ...

Researchers have discovered that the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is biofluorescent. A new study reveals that this ...

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 ...