Selfless behaviour and cooperation cannot be taken for granted. Mohammad Salahshour of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences has used a game theory-based approach to show why it can be worthwhile for individuals to set self-interests aside.
Serving others: volunteers at Berlin main train station handing out food and drinks
With a sophisticated combination of human and artificial intelligence, astronomers uncovered 1701 new asteroid trails in archival data of the Hubble Space Telescope spanning the past 20 years. While about one third could be identified and attributed to known objects, more than 1000 trails probably correspond to previously unknown asteroids. These unidentified asteroids are faint and likely smaller than asteroids detected in ground-based surveys. They could give the astronomers valuable clues about conditions in the early solar system, when the planets were formed.
Therefore we needed volunteers to do an initial classification, which we then used to train
The physicist Elina Fuchs spent four years conducting research at the Weizmann Institute in Israel after receiving a scholarship from the Minerva Stiftung, a subsidiary from the Max Planck Society. She reports on generous hospitality, unusual public holidays and colleagues who were happy to help.
individual colleagues.One Weizmann employee, whom we always came across on the train
165 new cancer genes identified with the help of machine learning
station corresponds to a protein or gene, and each interaction among them is the train
A study provides the first objective evidence that mental training reduces physical signs of long periods of stress
One promising option is mindfulness training, in which participants train their cognitive
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How it works Each exchange is handled individually in consultation with the trainers
The changing climate necessitates saying farewell to oil and coal. But our society, and especially our ideals of freedom and prosperity, are heavily dependent on the use of fossil fuels. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin are investigating just how strong this dependency is and how we can free ourselves from it.
increasingly also being aired in the elevator: why do people use cars instead of trains
The changing climate necessitates saying farewell to oil and coal. But our society, and especially our ideals of freedom and prosperity, are heavily dependent on the use of fossil fuels. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin are investigating just how strong this dependency is and how we can free ourselves from it.
increasingly also being aired in the elevator: why do people use cars instead of trains
Artificial intelligence in neural networks enables error-correction learning for quantum computers, as demonstrated by a team working under F. Marquardt of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
One neural network uses its prior knowledge to train another The solution comes in
Artificial intelligence in neural networks enables error-correction learning for quantum computers, as demonstrated by a team working under F. Marquardt of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
One neural network uses its prior knowledge to train another The solution comes in
