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Research News

The first brains in the world of animals marked a decisive step in evolution. Living beings could now process information and identify opportunities as well as dangers. But how did the first brains evolve and what form did they take? Fred Wolf from ...

Honeycombs in the desert

March 01, 2023

The honeycomb-like patterns that often occur in salt deserts, including Death Valley and Chile, look like something from another world. A team that included researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen ...

The impact of the European Soccer (Football) Championship 2020 on the incidence of the Corona pandemic differed a lot among the participating countries. The extent to which the numbers of infections and deaths from Covid-19 increased depended ...

The Max Planck Society supports Claudia Brunner's research project on the wakes of wind turbines with a Minerva Fast Track Group. At the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), Brunner, who holds a PhD in mechanical ...

Children exhale significantly fewer potentially infectious particles than adults - at least this is true for the small respiratory droplets that are predominantly produced in the lungs. This is a key finding of a study conducted by the Max Planck ...

Molecular Shape-Shifting

December 12, 2022

Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed Osat and Ramin Golestanian from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) revealed ...

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