What fascinates you about Max Planck and why is he still a good role model for young scientists today? I'm fascinated by his dedication to science, society, and his family. Planck appeared rather ...

"I could just as easily have become a philologist or a historian. What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner ...

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have unveiled fundamental new insights into the working ...

A long-standing saga centring on allegations of bullying at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany, is coming to a head. The scientist at the centre of the allegations ...

"With the discovery of the principle of energy conservation, the edifice of theoretical physics is fairly complete. There will be a mote to wipe out in a corner here or there, but something ...

Tune an FM radio to one of those empty spots between one station and another and out comes the buzz of static that says: Nothing to hear here. But there is something. Deep within the static is an ...

In a new experiment, a silica fibre just 500 nm across has been shown not to obey Planck’s law of radiation. Instead, say the Austrian physicists who carried out the work, the fibre heats and cools ...

Max Planck- Gesselschaft is one of 80 Max Planck Institutes for the study and advancement of science. The Max Planck Society was established in 1948 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with ...

Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...