In a new call for action paper, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, discuss the importance of scent in human history and address how and why experts might investigate smells from the past.
and motivate us in critical ways – whether to avoid danger
A group of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Thailand have multiple words for smells.
or events, such as spoiled food, that can pose a danger
A simple phase diagram can be used to explain when a liquid on a rough surface will form a thin film and when it will form droplets. As S. Herminghaus of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation has discovered, wetting up to a particular degree of roughness depends simply on vapour pressure (or humidity) and the contact angle.
while a thin film of rainwater on the road can pose a danger
An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has identified mathematical metrics to characterize the fragility of financial markets. Their paper “Network geometry and market instability” sheds light on the higher-order architecture of financial systems and allows analysts to identify systemic risks like market bubbles or crashes.
facilitate the spreading of perturbations and increase the danger
The brain uses bodily signals to regulate fear
insular cortex strongly reacts to stimuli signaling danger
Computation of motion by T4 cells in the fly brain more complex than previously believed.
manoeuvre has long been triggered before any real danger
The future of the Amazon rainforest and its influence on the global climate were the focus of the visit by Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Steffi Lemke to the ATTO – Amazon Tall Tower Observatory in Brazil. The President and the Federal Minister for the Environment visited the German-Brazilian research station, in which the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz participate, on January 2, 2023.
rainforest is our basis for life and this basis is in danger
Cancer cells kill blood vessel cells so that they can slip through the vascular wall and form metastases.
Biology Medicine Many cancers only become a mortal danger
Different chimp communities display various styles of grooming behaviour
chimpanzees and inform their ignorant group members of danger
Study investigates crowd behaviour under stress in a virtual environment
But what causes mass panic and where are the danger
