Press Releases

The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

26.04.2023: The reasons why insect numbers are decreasing

A researcher from Mainz University has published a special issue of Biology Letters on the causes and consequences of the worldwide decline in insect biomass as well as potential countermeasures ...

25.04.2023: Relatives discovered: Membrane proteins of cyanobacteria and higher organisms are structurally highly similar

SynDLP could be a bacterial ancestor of eukaryotic membrane proteins ...

24.04.2023: New electron scattering experiment designed for the excitation of the helium nucleus raises fundamental questions about our current understanding of nuclear forces

Theoretical predictions and new experimental data on 4He, measured with great accuracy, diverge significantly from each other ...

19.04.2023: Plate tectonic processes in the Pacific and Atlantic during the Cretaceous period have shaped the Caribbean region to this day

Computer models simulate plate tectonic processes since the beginning of the Cretaceous period around 140 million years ago and provides an explanation for the special features of the Caribbean region ...

17.04.2023: Baruch Shomron is the new holder of the Israel Professorship at the Department of Communication at Mainz University

Building bridges of academic exchange between Mainz and Israeli universities ...

11.04.2023: Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras

Males of the yellow crazy ant have two genomes each in separate cell clusters ...

03.04.2023: New international Master’s degree program will provide comprehensive knowledge and skills in the fields of soft matter and soft materials

Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt jointly offer new research-focused Soft Matter and Materials degree course program with increasing practical components starting in the coming winter semester ...

03.04.2023: Paola Arlotta receives 2023 Gutenberg Research Award

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to bestow its most prestigious research prize on Harvard stem cell biologist ...

30.03.2023: Second ERC Advanced Grant for Matthias Neubert

Novel theoretical predictions to advance the search for new physics at the LHC / Funding worth EUR 2.5 million ...

23.03.2023: Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

Improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics ...

23.03.2023: First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment

PhD student Daniel Wenz from Mainz University presents data at a seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy ...

22.03.2023: First neutrinos made by particle collider detected

Discovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe's most abundant particle ...

21.03.2023: New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Team of scientists at Mainz University finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals ...

16.03.2023: Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Science Clemens Hoch inaugurates new high-performance computer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

A milestone of national collaboration ...

02.03.2023: Sustainable process for the production of vanillin from lignin makes further progress

Kraft lignin successfully degraded using a "green" oxidizer ...

28.02.2023: Social media provide space for digital cosmopolitanism

Digital cosmopolitans share similar values and are guided by similar motivations and perspectives on society ...

13.02.2023: Interuniversity exchange in the FORTHEM Alliance: Universities of Mainz and Jyväskylä address innovative best practices in learning and teaching

High-profile delegation of the Education Council of the University of Jyväskylä familiarizes with JGU's promotion of innovative learning and teaching and gives new impulses in the field of university development ...

08.02.2023: Echoes of ancient curse tablets identified in the Book of Revelation

Descriptions and phrases used in the Revelation of John are similar in terminology to those appearing on curse tablets produced in antiquity and the associated sorcery rituals ...

07.02.2023: First Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow
Professor Dr. Alexej Jerschow (photo/©: private)

Chemistry professor at New York University receives new research prize worth EUR 100,000 / Future collaboration with the team of Dmitry Budker at Mainz University ...

01.02.2023: Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food

Analysis of finds from the Neumark-Nord site near Halle provide first indisputable proof of active hunting of elephants by early humans and change our perception of Neanderthal lifeways ...