In Tana River, eastern Kenya, Mercy Akinyi is investigating the transmission of diseases between humans, livestock, and ...

Researchers decipher how elephant trunk hairs enable exceptional tactile senses through material intelligence.

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

They found evidence that a giant elliptical galaxy may form through the rapid collapse of this infant galaxy cluster.

Modern Africa is young, diverse and a research powerhouse. In this interview, Tobias Bonhoeffer and Michaela Hergersberg ...

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck ...

Geoffrey Andama was a mentee in the first round of the ARTEMIS program in 2023. Since September 2025, he has headed the Max ...

Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche analyze the most energetic particle that has ever hit Earth and its possible origin in ...

As part of the Bridging Minds programme, Giacomo Costalunga, Mahalakshmi (Meera) Ramadas and Carlos Gómez-Guzmán from the Max ...

In the laboratory in the Max-Planck-outpost research station for comparative cognition run in collaboration with the Loro Parque Fundación, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, the African grey parrot ...

Different smell: Ozone destroys colony-specific scent signals by breaking down alkenes with carbon-carbon double bonds. Even slight changes in the scent profile are enough for ants to recognize them ...

What is a black hole? The mass of a star, concentrated into a single point. A point of infinite density, a singularity. A sphere around this point, from which a spaceship could only escape the central ...