Max Planck Society26 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalPhotographing a faint planet requires keeping its much brighter star out of the wayRoman’s coronagraph turns optical stability into a route toward new observations.
Max Planck Society25 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalYoung eagles can master flying long before they leave homeGPS tracking separates physical skill from the timing of independence.
Max Planck Society24 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA distant gamma-ray beam helps measure the light filling the universeAstronomers learn from what disappears on the journey as well as what arrives.
Max Planck Society19 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA faint star near the Milky Way’s black hole opens a tighter test of gravityS301’s orbit offers a future probe of the black hole’s rotation.
Max Planck Society18 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalAn AI discovery can become human knowledge if people can learn and transmit itA laboratory study followed successful strategies through chains of participants.
Max Planck Society13 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA gutless marine worm revealed an unexpected route through the carbon cycleSome animals possess enzymes that break down microbial PHA plastics.
Max Planck Society12 Aug 2026 · 1 min · OriginalHydrogen turbines need materials that survive the journey between operating temperaturesA damaging mechanism appeared during an intermediate temperature range.
Max Planck Society29 Jul 2026 · 1 min · OriginalNature research may have concentrated too heavily on recovery from stressA review asks what green space does when people are not depleted to begin with.
Max Planck Society22 Jul 2026 · 1 min · OriginalTeenagers’ social networks weakened Australia’s platform ban in a follow-up surveyLeaving a platform is harder when the people you want to see remain there.
Max Planck Society20 Jul 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA Tübingen startup wants robots to learn consequences from videoOntic Labs’ proposal targets the shortage of useful physical training data.
Max Planck Society13 Jul 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA thicker-looking visual cortex does not necessarily mean more unused connectionsHigh-resolution MRI offers another explanation for structural differences in congenital blindness.
Max Planck Society8 Jul 2026 · 1 min · OriginalA shared licensing framework could make German research spin-offs easier to negotiateThe immediate target is uncertainty over normal terms.
Max Planck Society1 Dec 2025 · 1 min · OriginalA mouse study’s “fatty smell” result depended on eating odor-containing foodThe experimental detail is narrower than the headline might suggest.
Max Planck Society8 Jun 2025 · 1 min · OriginalHydrogen plasma offers a different route from low-grade ore to nickel alloyThe proposed industrial benefit depends on both clean inputs and successful scale-up.
Max Planck Society21 May 2025 · 1 min · OriginalA three-dimensional metal network could loosen a battery-electrode trade-offThe research concerns how charge reaches active material inside a thicker electrode.
Max Planck Society3 Apr 2025 · 1 min · OriginalAnonymous recruitment tests can still create unequal barriersA German police-recruitment study examined what the assessment actually rewards.
Max Planck Society19 Mar 2025 · 1 min · OriginalEuclid’s first major data release made a small part of the sky into a vast research datasetWide surveys answer different questions from a telescope’s deepest close-up.
Max Planck Society5 Mar 2025 · 1 min · OriginalAging egg cells face changes in the repair machinery as well as accumulating damageMicroscopy and experiments investigate why DNA maintenance becomes less effective.
Max Planck Society27 Feb 2025 · 1 min · OriginalEngineered bacteria made more biomass from the same feedstock—but grew more slowlyA synthetic metabolic pathway improved one dimension of performance.
Max Planck Society17 Jan 2025 · 1 min · OriginalHeavy rain after drought can bypass the soil’s natural water filterLong-term German measurements tracked changes that bulk carbon readings can miss.
