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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, Holger Mitterer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and James McQueen (MPI and Radboud University Nijmegen) show how you can improve your second-language listening ability by watching the movie with subtitles -- as long as these subtitles are in the same language as the film. Subtitles in one's native language, the default in some...
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Science Mag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Max Planck Society's expansion into the former East Germany seeded top science into the region, but challenges remain in making sure the successes take root. Author: Gretchen Vogel
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Universe Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From the left: Klaus Beuermann (group leader), Jens Diese (back,teacher), and the high-school students Joshua Zachmann (front), Alexander-Maria Ploch (back), Sang Paik (front). JD, JZ, and AMP are from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium, SP is from the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium. High school students from Germany have now done what many scientists strive for: had their research work published [...]
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to study the complex activity of many brain cells simultaneously while animals are free to move around.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diabetes is the most prevalent metabolic disease in developed countries and one that engenders - in addition to its high fatality - enormous health care costs. The physiological meaning of the ‘feel-good` hormone serotonin in insulin-producing cells of the pancreas was not understood for more than 40 years but has finally been resolved by scientists of the Max Planck Institute...
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Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
According to Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Neanderthals and modern humans had sex across the species barrier. The professor has been using DNA retrieved from fossils to piece together the entire Neanderthal genome, and plans on publishing his findings soon. He recently told a conference that he was sure the two species had had...
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Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There’s been some coverage of a recent announcement by Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute, who opines that Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans had sexual encounters as they co-habited in Upper Palaeolithic Eurasia from around 42,000 bp to 24,500 bp. The main article is over at the London Times, from which this is an [...]
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Neanderthals 'had sex' with modern man : Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will shortly publish his analysis of the entire Neanderthal genome, using DNA retrieved from fossils. He aims to compare it with the genomes of modern humans and chimpanzees to work out the ancestry of all three species. ... Paabo recently...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Modern man and Neanderthals had sex across the species barrier, according to leading geneticist Professor Svante Paabo. Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, made the claim at a conference in the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York. But Prof Paabo said he was unclear if the couplings had led to children, of if they...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University have succeeded in applying a novel optical method to nano-mechanical oscillators. New fabrication techniques have enabled the development of on-chip mechanical elements whose dimensions are on the nanometer scale. Their application, however, has been limited by...
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Nasa (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Meteorologists urge new research on the influence of aerosols. (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft University press release)
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Physics Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The book currently on my nightstand is a slim, bright blue volume with the title Introducing Quantum Theory . It's part of the "Introducing…" series, which presents big ideas and great thinkers, such as psychoanalysis, Derrida, and Stephen Hawking, in a purposefully friendly, unimposing format. I have to admit I was a little skeptical when I first cracked open Introducing Quantum Theory...
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Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
From a Press Release from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Do dust particles curb climate change? A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists have been asking themselves whether, and to what extent man-made aerosols, that is, dust particles suspended in the atmosphere, enlarge the cloud cover and thus curb climate [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Image Caption: Every cloud is different from the next. It is therefore important to study the types of cloud systems in which aerosols have the greatest influence. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology / Stevens
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
( Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ) The H.E.S.S. telescope system detects high-energy rays from the starburst region of a galactic system outside the Milky Way.
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