Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light covers a wide range of topics, including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibres, optomechanics, quantum technologies, biophysics, and—in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin – links between physics and medicine. MPL was founded in 2009 and is one of the over 80 institutes that make up the Max Planck Society, whose mission is to conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
Scientists have long sought to understand how certain animals, such as zebrafish, are able to regrow…
It has become nearly impossible for human researchers to keep track of the overwhelming abundance of…
Negative pressure is a rare and challenging-to-detect phenomenon in physics. Using liquid-filled…
The glycocalyx, a highly complex structure consisting of sugars, surrounds every cell in the body.…
German Society for Cell Biology and ZEISS award Carl Zeiss Lecture 2023 to Professor Dr. Jochen Guck
Lecture and award ceremony in a public webinar on 29 November 2023
The German Society of Cell Biology (DGZ) and ZEISS have honoured Professor Dr.…
Another ERC grant for brain research goes to Professor Tomohisa Toda in Erlangen
Tomohisa Toda, Professor of Neural Epigenomics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been awarded another European Research…
On-chip interference of scattering from two individual molecules embedded in plastic
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have succeeded in coupling two organic molecules embedded in a plastic film via…
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