Our Yearbook 2016 showcases the research carried out at the Max Planck Institutes. We selected a few reports to illustrate the variety and diversity of topics and projects.
It ensures that we pull our hand away from a hot stovetop, protect injured limbs
B-cell lymphocytosis, a condition in which individuals have increased levels of particular white blood cells, in some cases leads to blood cancer. As an international team of researchers now shows in samples from patients, both diseases exhibit similar epigenetic signatures that are forming very early during the course of the disease.
On the one hand, rescue genes that become activated in an cellular emergency usually
Fighting the coronavirus with fabric and paper towels
National Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina also recommends a mask – even a hand-made
Study investigates crowd behaviour under stress in a virtual environment
real-life experiment: 95% of participants chose to pass each other on the right-hand
The KHI (Kunsthistorisches Institut) in Florence is one of the oldest research institutions dedicated to the history of art and architecture in Italy, where facets of European, Mediterranean and global history are subjected to close scrutiny.
Alessandro Nova, Director at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, on the other hand
Max-Planck-Wissenschaftler beschreiben das Erbgut des Denisova-Menschen und beleuchten dessen Beziehungen zu modernen Menschen
Replik des Fingerknochenfragments eines Denisova-Menschen auf einer menschlichen Hand
Tracy Kivell is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology since 2023.
research focused on combining studies of internal bone structure with studies of hand
The MPI for the Study of the Scientific-Technical World is founded
a young physicist, Weizsäcker had himself experienced nuclear fission at close hand
Astronomers discover a celestial body in the habitable zone around our nearest fixed star.
On the other hand, the close proximity of Proxima Centauri b to its host star makes
Dierk Raabe from the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research is developing perspectives for a sustainable, above all CO2-neutral metal industry, especially the sustainable production and processing of steel and aluminium.
© Flickr/Terje Trobe On one hand, the steel industry can produce iron in a CO2
