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Danger looms from out of space: asteroids and comets
asteroids or comets August 01, 2011 Astronomy Danger
Danger looms from out of space: asteroids and comets
asteroids or comets August 01, 2011 Astronomy Danger
Changing flowering times protect tobacco plants against insect herbivory. Messenger molecule in oral secretions of herbivorous insects changes flower opening time of their host plants.
plant and the young caterpillars become a serious danger
When food smells simultaneously appealing and repulsive, the learning centre aids decision-making
neurotransmitter (green) enable hungry flies to ignore danger
The profound influx of refugees has plunged the EU asylum system into a crisis In this interview, Ulrich Becker, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy talks about “ law that is lagging behind reality“, opportunities for remedies, and the results of a new study on the social protection rights of refugees in Europe.
Is there a danger of such a development taking place
Shambhavi Priyam of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods is coordinating an information cam- paign in northeast India in order to protect people from arsenic-contaminated well water. She reports on culinary delights, the slow wheels of the Indian bureaucracy, and celebrating her birthday in the midst of a pandemic.
worldwide Internationality Post from India Danger
The majority of vendettas originate within a group
But forcing cooperation in this way carries a danger
Researchers show that vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social cognitive processes
from the Budongo Forest, Uganda, inform others of danger
As would-be criminals heed stay-at-home orders, major cities across the globe have reported a significant drop in both property and violent crimes. The numbers of burglary, assault, murder, robbery, and grand larceny cases have dropped following the outbreak of the pandemic. This is due to the lack of opportunities, and the recognition that life is worth staying away from the public for. But for many, we are living in an utmost dreadful time, and it is still not over: victims of intimate partner violence are likely to suffer more under a constant threat when staying at home together with their aggressors.
such violence undermines the myth of the ‘stranger danger
Robots at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences acquire artificial intelligence through machine learning and also expand their range of application through reinforcement learning. The researchers are developing microrobots for medicine.
could one day rescue injured people from buildings in danger
The police forces currently find themselves in the focus of public debate. This was triggered partly by the attacks on police officers in Stuttgart by rioting youths. For another part, police violence against blacks in the USA has also brought up the issue of racism in police work in Germany. Ralf Poscher, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is investigating legal aspects of police work. In this interview he talks about the different police cultures in the USA and Germany, about violence and de-escalation and possibilities to prevent discrimination.
ruled that the role of the police was only to avert danger