MPI GEA in the Media: 2026

The Rococo Hall at Moers Castle was packed to the brim for the premiere of the “MoersSalon.” Einstein expert Jürgen Renn spoke about the Anthropocene and climate change. The message of the evening struck a chord.

By Sabine Hanneman in the Rheinische Post (text in German). more

A new study by Claudia Zancan in Antiquity argues that the enigmatic human figures in Kyushu’s decorated tombs were never meant to be portraits of the dead.

By Sandee Oster from Phys.org more

How David Bohm Tackled Quantum Mechanics with Hegelian Dialectics: Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn shed light on a fascinating chapter in the intellectual history of physics.

By Ulf von Rauchhaupt in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German) more

A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining human populations in Sri Lankan tropical rainforests shows that people's consumption of plants began increasing thousands of years before the introduction of agriculture.

From Phys.org more

Interview with Eleanor Scerri on the study “Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years”

By Ari Daniel from NPR more

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures similar to today.

By Bob Berwyn in Inside Climate News more

Article in Ars Technica by Jennifer Oulette more

Smart, crazy, or outdated? How can Trump's Venezuela adventure be explained? A conversation with Benjamin Steininger from the research collective “Beauty of Oil”

Interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German) more