Research News

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization together with project partners successful in nationwide innovation competition [more]

Göttingen team analyzes the progression of the epidemic [more]

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization uncover new mechanisms that regulate protein function [more]

Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization talks about the spread of the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 and strategies to contain the Covid-19 epidemic. She is one of the authors of a statement by non-university research organisations on pandemic. [more]

A statement by the presidents of the non-university research organizations based on mathematical analyses of the data situation [more]

Interactions of chemically active particles can be as complex as human relationships [more]

Göttingen researchers warn of shortage of intensive care beds for coronavirus patients [more]

In a recently published study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization show how the slime mold Physarum polycephalum can increase its pump efficiency when exposed to harmful light. It exploits the fact that its undulating pumping motion has overtones that can pump more efficiently in a particular constellation. Like in an instrument, these waves have a fundamental frequency (fundamental) and at least one overtone. [more]

In a brand-new paper that appeared in Nature Physics, a collaboration of the group of David Zwicker at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and the group of Eric Dufresne at ETH Zürich demonstrate some surprising effects of polymer networks on droplet growth. [more]

The role of temporal fluctuations for the swing feel in jazz music [more]