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The Perception of Male Beauty
Women’s faces are rated as more attractive than men’s across cultures, age groups, and sexual orientations. This effect...
Neural Circuits, Microbes, and Behavioral Evolution
Philipp Brand receives an ERC Starting Grant Microbial symbionts are widespread across the animal kingdom and can...
Mara Mather Appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for...
New research on the interplay of brain, body, and emotions On September 1, Neuroscientist Mara Mather is starting as...
Wilhelm Wundt Medal 2026 awarded to Ralph Hertwig
Highest DGPs honor for research on human decision-making The German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für...
Metalheads Can Endure Pain Longer Thanks to the Festival...
True to the motto “Faster, harder, louder,” some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at the Wacken Open Air...
How AI can contribute to human cultural evolution?
New study shows the conditions under which AI can not only solve problems but also create a lasting expansion of human...
The brain predicts based on scale-free probability estimation
Humans respond to environments that change at many different speeds. A video game player, for example, reacts to on...
When nature not only restores, but fortifies
Review by the Center for Environmental Neuroscience points to gap in existing environmental psychology literature Previous...
Ann Rose Bright and Inbal Shainer win Young Scientist Award
What shapes a neuron’s form, function and how quickly it matures? For this year’s two Young Scientist Award...
Dr. Alexandra Gribizis Awarded NIH Pathway to Independence Award
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) researcher Dr. Alexandra Gribizis has been awarded the NIH K99/R00...
Research That Inspires
Three Weeks of Science, New Perspectives and Discoveries for the Max Planck Junior Scholars 2026 How is scientific...
Huntington’s Disease: Targeted Light Pulses Improve Motor...
Targeted activation of specific nerve cells using pulses of light alleviates motor impairments in an animal model of...
Erin Schuman receives Kavli Prize
The director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is among the winners of the internationally renowned Kavli...
Neuroplex captures brain activity across nine cell types at once
In Brief Neuroplex, a novel imaging pipeline, enables simultaneous measurements of the activity of up to nine identified...
David Fitzpatrick Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, has been elected to the...