Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology have made an astonishing innovation in imaging.
Gerd Gigerenzer, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, thinks that instead they should boast about using heuristics.
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The findings are published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution by a team led by Dr Mathias Stiller of the Max Planck Institute, Germany.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, in Germany, performed a trial on mice with the disease and fed them a high cholesterol diet.
Birds in Germany are dying by the millions and Peter Berthold of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany, says that cats are to blame.
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Solange Guo Chatelard is a PhD candidate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
To study them, Martin Dresler, of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, in Munich, and his colleagues recruited a group of what are known as lucid dreamers.
He tracked down a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany who had just mapped the 3-D structure of the proteasome, which was shaped like a six-ringed cylinder.
The researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said the black hole was 27, 000 light years, or 158 thousand, million, million miles from the Earth.
There are arguments for this change: a 2005 study by the Max Planck Institute found that eavesdropping was more common in Italy than in any other European Union country.
Thirteen images were beamed back to Earth, and Dr. Nicholas Thomas of the Max Planck Institute in Germany said Deimos would never be more than a "spot" passing over Mars.
Dr Sanz worked on the paper with Josep Call, also from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and David Morgan from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.
To solve this problem, the researchers at the Max Planck Institute developed a technique using a fluorescent dye to make the spinal cord transparent, replacing the water that is normally there.
So researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, decided to compare adult chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos with human children of a year or 18 months in age.
Less well known is the role of the country's Constitutional Court, says Steffen Ganghof, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, in a forthcoming book.
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Yet both years were the hottest La Nina years on record and that shows the underlying global warming at work, said climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
Following five painstaking years spent extracting her bones from their sandstone casing, Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, and his colleagues have described her in Nature.
The Wendelstein 7-AS, a tiddler with a fuel capacity of but a single cubic metre, was built by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics at Garching, Germany, and operated from 1988 to 2002.
But about 1 million years ago the mountain gorillas were cut off from their cousins in West Africa, perhaps by drought, says Olaf Thalmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
To find out if chimpanzees share this sense of fairness, Keith Jensen and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, designed a way for chimps to play the ultimatum game.
Researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics created high-tech gloves that help you find what you're looking for by vibrating when you get close to the lost item.
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Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, estimates that it would take a graduate student (the workhorse of all academic laboratories) about 130, 000 years to reconstruct the circuitry of such a column.
As a result, the 7-AS is being followed by a larger machine, the Wendelstein 7-X, which is being built (see photograph on previous page) by the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald and has a capacity of 30 cubic metres.
Lead author Michael Dunn, an evolutionary linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, said the approach is akin to the study of pea plants by Gregor Mendel, which ultimately led to the idea of heritability of traits.
The firm was founded in the early 1990s by several academic researchers, including Axel Ullrichof Germany's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, who had been studying receptors on the surface of cells that receive growth signals from other parts of the body.
"Vesta is so rich in features that it will keep the science team busy for years, " said mission scientist Holger Sierks at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.
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