Columbia University and Max Planck Society team up to advance fusion energy science. The new Max Planck Columbia Center will ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...

Poor visibility conditions affect millions of drivers around the world. Thousands of them die each year in a car accident. Excessive speed constitutes a major causal factor for these car accidents.

Earlier analyses of human–machine interaction mostly showed negative synergy effects. A review of 74 studies suggested that human–AI teams perform less well than the better of the two working alone.

The Max Planck Alumni Kick-off at the Harnack Haus got underway with 230 guests and an innovative portal for global ...

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, ...

Materials science is facing major challenges: The steel industry alone contributes eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. Each year, e-waste, equivalent to 350 mega cruise ships, is ...

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have now presented the first empirical ...

The new Max Planck Columbia Center will have a total budget of $13.3 million over its five-year term more ...

When astronomers search for planets outside our solar system, they are particularly interested in Earth-like planets. Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets they have discovered so far, only about a dozen ...

Xuehu Wei, who is a doctoral student in the research team around Alfred Anwander and Angela Friederici, compared the brain scans of 94 native speakers of two very different languages and showed that ...

The very successful chemotherapeutic paclitaxel is a natural plant remedy derived from yew trees. As 10.000 kg of yew needles need to be extracted to obtain a 2g dosage for treatment of a single ...