Home Newsroom Newsroom All News Research & Insights Awards Select type All News Research & Insights Awards Fractured Reality – How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle over the Information Space April 21, 2026 Democracy Publication JRC report takes stock and sets out policy recommendations more ARD – Kind Ja oder Nein: Will ich Mutter sein? April 16, 2026 Decision Making Media Echo Media Echo Landing Page Why is it so difficult to decide whether or not to have children? In an ARD interview entitled 'Die Frage'… more Die Zeit – Wiederholt sich Geschichte, Ute Frevert? 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What will matter going forward? more What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making January 29, 2026 News International research team conducts large-scale field experiment in Finland more Helena Nikonole joins Artist & AI Residency January 22, 2026 News Artist Helena Nikonole will participate in the Artist & AI Residency at the Center for Humans and Machines (CHM)… more Treasure trove of data on aging accessible January 12, 2026 Ageing News The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now available to researchers worldwide at the Research Data Center… more On the move: MRI goes mobile January 07, 2026 News Max Planck Institute for Human Development celebrates new mobile MRI more Research highlights 2025 December 22, 2025 Artificial Intelligence News A look back at a year of research with many highlights more Inequalities in online discourse December 10, 2025 News Social Media Society Researchers conducted a Reddit field experiment to better understand the dynamics of 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