http://www.wikio.com/search=Max Planck Institute Wikio - Max Planck Institute http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69336031 (PhysOrg.com) -- New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:01:37 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69336031 2008-08-28T22:01:37Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69338659 Experiments with genetically modified plants reveal new aspects on the biochemistry of flowers. Scientists have discovered how the chemistry of nectar and floral scents enforces good pollinator behavior, enabling plants to optimize the production of out-crossed seeds. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69338659 2008-08-28T04:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69314118 Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have discovered how the chemistry of nectar and floral scents enforces good pollinator behavior, enabling plants to optimize the production of out-crossed seeds. Field experiments with genetically modified wild tobacco plants (Nicotiana attenuata) revealed the importance of benzyl acetone as a pollinator attractant in the floral fragrance and the poison, nicotine, as a repellent in nectar that improve the plant's abilities to exchange pollen grains. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69314118 2008-08-28T04:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69199302 (PhysOrg.com) -- From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:01:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69199302 2008-08-27T22:01:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69153281 North American Arctic contains more carbon subject to permafrost thaw that previously thought. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:20:22 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69153281 2008-08-27T14:20:22Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69113610 Despite warnings from the West, Russia has recognized the independence of two Georgian provinces. But they have no legal grounds for secession and can't be compared to Kosovo, German experts say. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:11:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69113610 2008-08-27T08:11:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69039088 "Drunken" trees listing wildly, cracked highways and sinkholes--all are visible signs of thawing Arctic permafrost. When this frozen soil warms, it releases carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as microbes start to thrive on the organic material it contains--a potentially potent source of uncontrollable climate change. [More] Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=69039088 2008-08-26T15:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68562802 Image Caption: Soil from a sample called Burning Coals was delivered through the doors of cell number seven (left) of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:25:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68562802 2008-08-22T00:25:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68561194 A Comcast spokesman contacted an IDG reporter whose report bubbled up to the New York Times today: "Comcast has made no final decisions on how to manage network congestion, despite news reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:40:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68561194 2008-08-21T20:40:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68530049 Researchers say they have figured out how a mysterious clutch of massive stars could have come into existence a few trillion miles from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. [More] Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68530049 2008-08-21T19:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68439804 Strands of DNA recovered from the fossilised leg bone of a Neanderthal have shed light on the fragility of this ancient hominid species. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68439804 2008-08-21T04:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68416238 September 2008 will see particle physicists setting protons on a collision course through the Large Hadron Collider with more energy than ever before. Their intention is to track down the Higgs boson and solve the problem of why the universe contains almost no antimatter. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:48 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68416238 2008-08-20T20:36:48Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68363411 Want to get a paper published in a psychology journal? Get your hands on some of those juicy research grants? Ask your subjects to perform a mental task - making moral decisions, gambling, looking at pictures of naked ladies, well,... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68363411 2008-08-20T13:57:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68343693 Field survey confirms that plants can boost levels of the greenhouse gas. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:50 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=68343693 2008-08-20T11:45:50Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67825047 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:11:30 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67825047 2008-08-15T07:11:30Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67798283 So, last week I gave some lectures at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena, a city in the Lander of Thuringia in the former East Germany. This city was touted in the latest Economist Country Survey of Germany as doing as well as any in this former nation. Its university is also very renowned. Founded in 1558, it had Goethe as an administrator and faculty that included Shiller, Hegel, Fichte, Herder, Haeckel, and Frege, with both Robert Schumann and Karl Marx as students. The major business in town (it is only about 90,000 population) is the Carl Zeiss Optical Works, which dates to the 19th century, and was one of the most successful of enterprises even during the period of socialist rule, and is doing well now, part of why The Economist could tout the place. Its unemployment rate is about the same as the German average, which is much better than most of the former East Germany, where some parts still have such rates exceeding 20%. The city is a more extreme than usual example of mixing the old and the replacing bomb-damaged-new in Germany. The old Market Square, with its Rathaus dating to the 14th century survived bombing that hit the Eichplatz next to it. That area was rebuilt during the socialist period, partly with an open square, and partly with a tall and round skyscraper. This structure represented the "Kombinate" approach of the former East Germans, which involved lots of horizontal and vertical integration of activities, with, in this case. everything in Jena coming under a single administrative entity. This skyscraper effectively represented this approach, with much of the university on several of its floors in that era. On the one hand life seems not too bad. Buildings look OK, and people do not look poor. Students seem to have adapted to the new regime, although they were completely unacquainted with Post Keynesian economics, which I lectured on in one of my talks. However, in talking to some of them, they do not see prospects as good there. Most plan to look for jobs in "the old states" (of the West) or even outside of Germany, these being economics grad students. I also observed very little construction going on, with some of what is going on still being fixups of WW II bomb damage. A curious point is that while hard science faculty survived mostly the transition, all the social science faculties were purged at the time. The current economics profs are all from the West. None of them live in Jena permanently, having apartments there, but going back home to the West on the weekends, if not more frequently. One of them told me that he did move his family in the late 1990s to Weimar near Jena, but they moved back west after three years, there being too much hostility from the locals. However, the students say this is gradually dying out. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:45:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67798283 rosserjb@jmu.edu 2008-08-14T21:45:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67770239 ( Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ) Researchers discover an antistick layer in plant bugs which allows these insects to live on the surface of sticky insect traps. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67770239 2008-08-14T04:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67655473 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has formed an exclusive research agreement with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, to investigate and characterize the molecular mechanisms underlying intracellular transport of small interfering RNA, the molecules that mediate RNA interference. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:00:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67655473 2008-08-13T17:00:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67647285 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have made an important discovery about so-called solar... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:24:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67647285 2008-08-13T14:24:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67391098 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Phoenix's robotic arm excavated the soil last week from a trench at its landing site, ... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:25:28 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Max+Planck+Institute?rinfoid=67391098 2008-08-11T17:25:28Z