In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the impact of over 2,000 clinically approved drugs on DNA repair and CRISPR genome editing ...

In the night of December 19, 2025, the EU Council reached a decision if and how frozen assets from Russia should be used in ...

In 33 communities across 15 countries, both children and adults generally agree that animals can think and feel, but that ...

MPG.PuRe is the institutional publication repository of the Max Planck Society (MPG). The Max Planck Institutes use this application to make bibliographic data of their academic publications (title, ...

Research highlights 2025: the year 2025 saw Max Planck scientists publishing exceptional research across disciplines. We have selected twelve highlights to share.

Every year the Max Planck Society submits a report on its annual activities and commenced or planned undertakings. As stated in the statues, the Senate adopts the annual report and presents it to the ...

With the first call for applications in April 2025, a new recruitment procedure was introduced. Positions are advertised collectively twice a year – on March 1 and September 1. Each call for ...

The Max Planck Society is an important part of the European Research Area. A good third from all international guest and junior scientists come from countries in the European Union.

Over 400 Personal Supporting Members (individuals) as well as about 250 Corporative Supporting Members (companies, associations, and communities) support Max Planck in a variety of ways. As ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

Völkerrechtler Dimitri Spieker erklärt, worum es in der Debatte um frozen assets - die Nutzung der eingefrorenen russischen Vermögenswerte geht und worauf die Vorlagen zur Entscheidung beim EU-Gipfel ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...