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During the Covid-19 pandemic, parents suddenly had to cope without formal childcare, placing a significant strain on mothers in particular. A recent study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock examines the changes in childcare arrangements during the pandemic and how this impacted parents' mental health. Mothers who continued to be primarily responsible for childcare experienced increased stress and exhaustion during the pandemic. Fathers, on the other hand, benefited in terms of health when their partner continued to provide the majority of childcare duties.

What is ? Why are more and more people becoming obese? And what health consequences can this have? The Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne answers the most important questions ->

www.sf.mpg.de/2071930/FAQ

Ready to take your research to the next level? The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research is offering up to 12 fully funded PhD positions! 🎓Join us in a vibrant international research environment in Cologne! Applications open until November 4, 2024. 🌟 Apply now! 🚀😎

👉Join our vibrant ageing research hub in Cologne, Germany and apply NOW for one of 🚨12 FULLY FUNDED PhD POSITIONS 🚨 at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research until November 4, 2024! Do you have a background in the life sciences? Join our international community and spread the news! Start your PhD in one of our institutes of the Max Planck Society and the CECAD - Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research of the University of Cologne! 👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓
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Happy birthday, , born July 25 in 1920!🤗 A true trailblazer of molecular biology, the brilliant chemist & X-ray crystallographer was not only vital in discovering the iconic double helix, but also pioneered structural studies of colloids, viruses & RNA. 🧬 🔬

Ready to lead your own research team-?😎 The Max Planck Society offers you the chance to head an independent Research Group at a participating Max Planck Institute of your choice - the next open topic call starts on Sep 9, 2024. Stay tuned for updates!🌟

https://www.mpg.de/career/max-planck-research-groups/applications

Some like it hot 🔥 😉 The Global Fire Monitoring Centre, headed by Johann Georg Goldammer, fights fire with fire.

For more information, follow https://www.mpic.de/4224628/gfmc

Researchers from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Konstanz have measured the heart rate of bats over several days in the wild, including complete flights - the first time this has been done for a bat species 🦇. Bats can ramp up heart rate from 6 to 900 beats per minute within minutes. To record the heart rate of male common noctule bats during flight, the scientists attached heart rate transmitters weighing less than one gram to the animals, which they then accompanied in an airplane while the bats flew, sometimes for more than an hour, in search of food. Their results show how much energy bats consume over the course of a day and what energy-saving strategies they use to survive.

They found that male common noctule bats consume up to 42 percent more energy in summer compared to spring. This is mainly due to the fact that the bats in spring go into a kind of short daytime hibernation known as “torpor” - an energy-saving state in which heart rate can be reduced to six beats per minute. “We saw that bats in spring could ramp up their heart rates when they wake up, reaching the top speed of 900 beats per minute within only a few minutes,” says Lara Keicher, the lead author of the study.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified an improbably massive black hole from the infancy of the universe – which is surprisingly unhungry! 🧐Located in galaxy J1120+0641, it already weighed one billion solar masses when the universe was only 770 million years old. Now you'd expect this cosmic giant to be ravenous: to grow so big, so fast, it would have needed to gobble up huge amounts of surrounding matter.😋But observations show it wasn't munching on much during that period. So how did it get so enormous so soon? Astronomers are continuing to trying to solve this cosmic mystery! 🔭

A black hole of inexplicable mass Using the space telescope JWST, astronomers have examined one of the most distant known black holes in the universe. Their observations provide a glimpse of the growth of black holes in the early universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, the early black hole in question s...

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The Perseus galaxy cluster was one of the first targets of ESA's Euclid space telescope. It contains thousands of brilliant galaxies, as heavy as 650 trillion suns, held together by their own gravity.

https://www.mpg.de/21955303/euclid-new-data-reveal-secret-perseus-galaxy-cluster

Researchers see the light New scientific images and data from the Euclid space telescope unravel the mystery of the faint glow in the Perseus galaxy cluster. The images also demonstrate how researchers can use Euclid to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, search for alien planets, study dark matter and explore the evolution of...

Social online training helps against loneliness and depression: it helps to promote social skills and reduce mental health problems. https://www.mpg.de/21926353/online-dyads-anxiety-depression?c=2249

Social online training helps against loneliness and depression Online intervention helps to promote social skills and reduce mental health problems

A marine mystery has been solved! 😲 A newly discovered symbiosis between and a rhizobial bacterium plays a major role in nitrogen fixation in the . 🌊
https://mpg.de/21885340/0429-mbio-new-rhizobia-diatom-symbiosis-solves-long-standing-marine-mystery-154772-x

Researchers have observed a Sumatran in the wild repeatedly treating its own wound with a plant with several known medicinal properties - the first scientific record of this behaviour in a wild animal! 😮

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Paleo diet? A study in "Nature Ecology & Evolution" reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/30/africa/morocco-ancient-humans-paleo-diet-scn/index.html via CNN Nature

Paleo diet? Study reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate | CNN A long-held stereotype is that ancient humans were big on meat. A new study of one hunter-gatherer population reveals a different sort of menu.

Happy birthday, Max Planck!

Many know Max Planck as a brilliant physicist, winner and the originator of . But he was also a dedicated family man, a passionate musician and mountaineer as well as a skilled scientific organizer and networker. He was born on April 23rd, 1858, in Kiel / Germany.

Left-handedness in the population is not caused by genetic variants, research finds.

A NPR podcast with Clyde Francks, a geneticist and neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.

Genes play a very small role in determining left-handedness, research finds NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Clyde Francks, a geneticist in the Netherlands, about the latest research into what makes people left or right-handed.

What does sustainability mean for your research?

Scientists and member of the research service staff at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials give very personal answers [YouTube video]

What does sustainability mean to you? Everyone is talking about , but what does it actually mean to you? We asked the team - let's see how they respond. We will post our bi...

Animals can live alongside humans if they are risk-analysis experts. This is according to a new study in eLife.

More: https://www.mpg.de/21751148/0327-evan-how-and-why-animals-can-live-alongside-humans-150495-x?c=2249
https://elifesciences.org/articles/89315

City birds shy away from risk Caution helps animals in their dealings with humans

Do and drink preferences influence migration flows? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research used data to investigate the influence of cultural similarities on flows and found that cultural proximity plays as important a role in the choice of destination country as shared language and history.

Do food and drink preferences influence migration flows? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research used Facebook data to investigate the influence of cultural similarities on migration flows and found that cultural proximity plays as important a role in the choice of destination country as shared language and history.

You rock science! 👏🏼🎉This year's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize goes to Claire Donnelly in Dresden and Eugene Kim in Frankfurt. Congratulations!

https://www.mpg.de/21734420/heinz-maier-leibnitz-prize-2024-donnelly-kim

High honour for two Max Planck scientists This year, alongside two other female and six male scientists, Claire Donnelly and Eugene Kim will receive Germany's most prestigious award for researchers in the early stages of their careers. Each recipient will receive a prize of 200,000 euros, intended to support further research endeavours for....

On , we want to celebrate the brilliance & contributions of women in science around the globe: from pioneering research to inspiring the next generation, they continue to shape our world. So to all women scientists out there: thank you for your dedication passion & brilliance, you inspire us all! 🥳😚🙂[Pic: AI-generated image of 17th century entomologist, artist, naturalist and proto-ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian, created for us by Gesine Born]

🔬Calling all early-career researchers! Want to join transformative research in carbon capture? Heading your own research group? Then this may just be your cup of tea! 😉☕️We're currently looking for 3 research group leaders in carbon capture technologies.

https://www.mpg.de/21509921/carbon-capture

Following the series of earthquakes in and on February 6, 2023, members of the Max Planck Society (MPG) launched a social impact initiative to support the academic and professional development of university students in the earthquake-affected regions.

https://www.mpg.de/21509536/maxminds-mentoring-project-for-students-in-turkey-and-syria

The ESA - European Space Agency gives go-ahead for flagship gravitational-wave observatory in space! 🚀 Following today´s Adoption, the LISA mission advances to the construction phase.
“This trailblazing mission will take us to the next level in a really exciting area of space science and keep European scientists at the forefront of gravitational wave research,” says ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell. https://lisamission.org/

ESA - European Space Agency gives go-ahead for flagship gravitational-wave observatory in space! Following today´s Adoption, the LISA mission advances to the construction phase.

“This trailblazing mission will take us to the next level in a really exciting area of space science and keep European scientists at the forefront of gravitational wave research,” says ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell.

https://lisamission.org/
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Capturing_the_ripples_of_spacetime_LISA_gets_go-ahead
https://lisa.nasa.gov/



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Microplastic fibers are settling substantially slower than spherical particles in the atmosphere. Thus they can travel as far as the Arctic or Antarctica and might even reach the stratosphere, a new study finds. https://mpg.de/21360687/micrplastic-atmosphere