Max Planck researchers and animal care takers explain why animal research is still indispensable for basic research
That’s why we spend a lot of time with them and make sure they don’t get bored.“
Bacteria can live on almost anything – some even on oil. Friedrich Widdel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, is studying microbes that break down oil hydrocarbons without oxygen, deep down in the sediment. Could they be useful in oil spills?
Sure enough, slowly but surely, hydrogen sulfide formed in the test tube.
Smell leads storks to freshly mown meadows
The researchers also made sure that the storks were not alerted to the mowing process
Researchers analyze disinformation in social media and develop ways to promote facts and fair dialogue online
While rumors often begin with phrases like “I’m not sure, but…”, hate speech is
Most people want to spend their last hours at home – and not in hospital, as is still often the case. But the trend reversal has been initiated, as a new study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock shows. According to the study, the proportion of elderly people dying in a clinic has been declining for years. Excluded from this positive development, however, are the elderly aged 80 and over.
Carollo: „It is now important to expand care, and to make sure that existing healthcare
Extracellular vesicles play a much greater role in horizontal gene transfer in the ocean than previously assumed
of the significance of horizontal gene transfer in many ecosystems, we are very sure
One single odorant receptor controls choice of citrus fruits as egg-laying substrate in Drosophila.
They excluded damaged fruits to make sure that the smell of yeast would not influence
On 12 February 2022, Charles Darwin would have been 213 years old. In honour of the British naturalist, the international Darwin Day will be celebrated worldwide tomorrow. One person who recently sailed in Darwin’s footsteps is Eduardo Sampaio from the MPI of Animal Behavior in Constance. He spent ten days on board the Captain Darwin in the waters off Cape Verde – almost 200 years after Charles Darwin visited the islands off the West African coast.
But we weren’t sure if they would catch the reflection and would recognize another
Bacteria can live on almost anything – some even on oil. Friedrich Widdel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, is studying microbes that break down oil hydrocarbons without oxygen, deep down in the sediment. Could they be useful in oil spills?
Sure enough, slowly but surely, hydrogen sulfide formed in the test tube.
A team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization has realised a mixed state (chimera state) of order and disorder with metronomes on two swings which are coupled by springs. The metronomes on one swing then oscillate synchronously; those on the other do not.
„This odd symmetry breaking was carefully tested by making sure that losses due to
