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Discovery of a Precursor to Agriculture (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 26 Aug 2025
Archaeobotanical investigations led by Robert Spengler of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology revealed that the people of Toda Cave were collecting wild barley from the surrounding valleys.
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Innovative battery technology from Mülheim (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 26 Aug 2025
The project was initiated by Abdu Bilican, a former PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, together with his co-founders ... A pilot plant is now being built at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung.
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Cohort life expectancy is no longer rising as quickly (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 26 Aug 2025
In a study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), José Andrade (Max Planck Institute for ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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One in three people avoid information about their own health (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 26 Aug 2025
A new review study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that nearly one in three people choose to avoid medical information about serious health conditions if they fear they may be affected.
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Out-of-home care for children in Finland has doubled (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 25 Aug 2025
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) analysed how the risk of Finnish children being placed in out-of-home care has evolved over time ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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Nomads Thrived in Greece After the Collapse of the Roman Empire

Greek Reporter 22 Aug 2025
AI-generated image of nomads in ancient Greece. Credit. stability.ai ... Adam Izdebski at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany and his colleagues were studying sediment cores from the lake as part of a larger study ... ....
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Victims database goes online (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 21 Aug 2025
Scientists from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG), the predecessor of the Max Planck Society (MPG), were also implicated in these crimes, as the brains of the murdered were misused for research well into the post-World War II period.
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Going with the flow: how penguins use tides to travel and hunt

The Conversation 19 Aug 2025
Magellanic penguins in the surf. Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock ... Disappointingly, neither Piglet nor Pooh mention fluid dynamics despite its pivotal importance in determining who won. Unlike sticks, though, animals can respond to those flows ... Read more ... .
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In the blink of an eye: How river noise shapes the dipper’s silent signals (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 15 Aug 2025
A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence and Lancaster University is among the first to document this kind of sensory shift in a wild bird ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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Beyond Words: The Cognitive Force of Metaphor (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 14 Aug 2025
In a new recent paper, published in PLOS Complex Systems, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences researchers Marie Teich and ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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Astronomers Spot the “Eye of Sauron” in Deep Space (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 13 Aug 2025
"When we reconstructed the image, it looked absolutely stunning," says Yuri Kovalev, lead author of the study and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded MuSES project at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR).
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Pathogen discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 11 Aug 2025
... author Ian Light-Maka, a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology focused on the long-term evolution of pathogens ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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It's not all about size (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Public Technologies 08 Aug 2025
A new study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Turku adds to this ... Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
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