Max Planck researchers and animal care takers explain why animal research is still indispensable for basic research
experiments with animals to develop new treatments in veterinary medicine and to train
The desert ant’s use of its own built-in GPS – consisting of a sun-compass-based path integration system and visual landmarks – in locating its nest is a known phenomenon. Researchers recently ascertained, however, that this system also includes a sense of smell. Even more surprising is the discovery that these animals learn to distinguish between different odors in the nest environment, and use these like a map. Markus Knaden and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena set out to search for clues in ant country.
From there, she flew back to Germany, took a train from Leipzig airport to Jena and
Scientists are reconstructing the relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals.
‚Were you to meet a Neanderthal in the train,‘ the paleoanthropologist explains,
Single atoms can’t be grasped through everyday experience: even a drop of water or a microorganism is made up of countless numbers of them. But Gerhard Rempe, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, uses single atoms to study the interaction between light and matter at the most elementary level. The work that he and his team perform is creating the foundations for a future quantum internet.
And the wave trains of the electrons must fit exactly around the atom: when closing
Single atoms can’t be grasped through everyday experience: even a drop of water or a microorganism is made up of countless numbers of them. But Gerhard Rempe, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, uses single atoms to study the interaction between light and matter at the most elementary level. The work that he and his team perform is creating the foundations for a future quantum internet.
And the wave trains of the electrons must fit exactly around the atom: when closing
